George A. Smith Quotes

There Is No Truth Which The Prophets Press More Steadily Upon Israel Than That All Their National Life Lies In The Sight And On The Care Of God.

Jesus Christ Tells Us That A Man Cannot Be Wrong If He Argues Towards God From What He Finds Best In Himself.

Man Does Find In Nature Deliverance From Himself, Oblivion Of His Past, With Peace And Purity!

Happiness, Contentment, The Health And Growth Of The Soul, Depend, As Men Have Proved Over And Over Again, Upon Some Simple Issue, Some Single Turning Of The Soul.

Into Every Soul, However Purged And Fenced, Evil Appears To Have As Much Freedom Of Entrance As God Himself.

The Heart Which Finds Life In Material Wealth Is Usually Certain To Go Farther And Seek For More In The Satisfaction Of Base And Sullen Appetites.

Let Those Who, Still In Their Youth, Have Preserved Their Faith And Fullness Of Hope, Keep Looking Up.

The Whole Mystery Of Temptation Is To Have Sins Suggested To Us, And To Be Swept After Them By A Sudden Enthusiasm, Which Sometimes Feels As Strong As The Spirit Of God Ever Made In Us The Enthusiasm For Virtue.

How On The Face Of The Earth Could A Man Enjoy His Religion, When He Had Been Told By The Lord How To Prepare For A Day Of Famine, When, Instead Of Doing So, He Had Fooled Away That Which Would Have Sustained Him And His Family.

We Breathe The Free Air, We Have The Best Looking Men And Handsomest Women, And If They Envy Our Position, Well They May, For They Are A Poor, Narrow Minded, Pinch-backed Race Of Man, Who Chain Themselves Down To The Law Of Monogamy And Live All Their Days Under The Dominion Of One Wife. They Aught To Be Ashamed Of Such Conduct, And The Still Fouler Channel Which Flows From Their Practices.

If We Have A Heart For The Magnitudes Of Life, It Will Not Seem Vain To Believe That God Himself Should Guard It.

We Must Seek The Loving-kindness Of God In All The Breadth And Open-air Of Common Life.