David O. McKay Quotes

As we regularly spend time reading God's Word and talking to Him in prayer, we put ourselves in position for Him to do things in our lives we could never do on our own.

You can't just say, 'God help me,' and he's there. It takes a little bit more work on the part of the individual, I think.

In order for good to blossom it must be cultivated and exercised by constant practice, and to be truly righteous there is required a daily pruning of the evil growth of our characters by a daily repen- tance from sin.

When we pray for any virtue, we should cultivate the virtue as well as pray for it; the form of your prayer should be the rule of your life; every petition to God is a precept to man. Look not, therefore, upon your prayers as a method of good and salvation only, but as a perpetual monition of duty. By what we require of God we see what he requires of us.

Deepen your existing spiritual commitment.

Through prayer, fasting, and studying, God will answer.

He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.

I pray and I meditate every day. It can be a great, great asset.

Though it seems curious, I do not remember ever asking for anything but what I got it. And I always received it as an answer to my prayers.

Prayer doesn't just change things - it changes us. If we are diligent in seeking God, slowly and surely we become better people.

We pray before everything - videos, onstage, TV shows. I think that has a lot to do with being successful.

I prayed every day of my life, and that was instilled in me as a kid, and as I've gotten older, that's just matured in me.

study to practice in life that which the Lord commands, and then be you assured that you shall never hear nor read the same without fruit.

Let him never cease from prayer who has once begun it, be his life ever so wicked; for prayer is the way to amend it, and without prayer such amendment will be much more difficult.

Cease to pray and thou will begin to sin. Prayer is not only a means to prevail for mercy but also to prevent sin.

God bless thee; and put meekness in thy breast, Love, charity, obedience, and true duty!

Contemplation must bring forth right action in order to permit further growth.

Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.

Godliness is the child of truth, and it must be nursed by its own mother.

For every step in spiritual perception, three steps are to be taken in moral development.

Backsliding, generally first begins with neglect of private prayer.

A good man's prayers will from the deepest dungeon climb heaven's height, and bring a blessing down.

Love is the fruit of prayer ... Patiently abiding in prayer signifies a man's renunciation of himself. Therefore the self-denial of the soul turns into love for God.

God has frequently to knock the bottom board out of your experience if you are a saint in order to get you into contact with Himself. God wants you to understand this is a life of faith, not a life of sentimental enjoyment of His blessings. ... "Though He slay me yet will I trust Him" - this is the most sublime utterance of faith in the whole of the Bible.

As your consciousness becomes more settled, all your life patterns change. What religions have called sin will disappear from your life, and what they have called virtue will automatically flow from your being, from your actions. But they have been doing just vice versa: first change the acts... It is as if you are in a dark house, and you are stumbling over furniture and over things, and you are told that unless you stop stumbling, light is not possible.