Heber J. Grant

“What I count as real prosperity... is the growth in a knowledge of God, and in a testimony, and in the power to live the gospel and to inspire our families to do the same. That is prosperity of the truest kind.”

“There is no better example of an older brother's love than that exhibited in the life of Hyrum Smith for the Prophet Joseph Smith.”

“My most earnest prayer is that every man and every woman will get it into his or her heart that they are in very deed the architects of their lives.”

“When we set our hearts upon the things of this world and fail to be strictly honest with the Lord, we do not grow in the light and power and strength of the gospel as we otherwise would do.”

“There is no labor in which we engage but that there is a spirit telling us, 'Oh, you do not need to do that; it is a waste of time, and you ought to be engaged in something else.'”

“Thank the Lord for a mother who was a general as well as a Latter-day Saint; who realized that it was a remarkable and splendid thing to encourage a boy to do something besides perhaps milking cows if he was on a farm, if he had ambitions along athletic lines.”

“When I was about forty-three years of age, I had a private secretary with a beautiful baritone voice. I told him I would give anything in the world if I could only carry a tune. He laughed and said, 'Anybody who has a voice and perseverance can sing.'”

“There stand out in my life many incidents in my youth, of wonderful inspiration and power through men preaching the gospel in the spirit of testimony and prayer.”

“I have, all the days of my life, enjoyed singing very much.”

“My wife Lucy was very sick for nearly three years prior to her death. At one time, I was in the hospital with her for six months.”

“I have felt the inspiration of the living God directing me in my labors.”

“I know that Lorenzo Snow was God's mouthpiece upon the earth, that he was the representative of the Lord, and that he was, in very deed, a prophet of God.”

“I consider it one of the greatest accomplishments of my life that I have learned to sing.”

“I have no animosity against any living soul.”