George A. Smith Quotes

George A. Smith — American Clergyman born on June 26, 1817, died on September 01, 1875

George Albert Smith was an early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and served in the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and as a member of the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints... (wikipedia)

Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.

Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.

Yet none use their words more recklessly than the strong, who have not been sobered by the rebuffs and uncertainties of life.

We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.

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.