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" When I was about twenty-five years of age, Professor Sims informed me that I could sing, but added, 'I would like to be at least forty miles away while you are doing it.' "

Heber J. Grant

Doing

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" When I first began to learn to sing... I would get off on nearly every line and did not know it. I have learned to know when I am off. "

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Heber J. Grant

My Life

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" I ask every man and woman occupying a place of responsibility whose duty it is to teach the gospel of Jesus Christ to live it and keep the commandments of God, so that their example will teach it. "

" When I first began to learn to sing, it took me from three to four months to learn two simple hymns. "

" I am free to confess that I am disappointed with the Yosemite valley. It seems only about one-half as grand as the American Fork canyon. "

" I am always pleased when I have the opportunity of meeting with the Latter-day Saints in any of their gatherings. "

" As a boy, without experience, never having spoken in public in my life, for any length of time, never ten minutes at once, I was called to preside over a stake of Zion. "

" I don't care if every patriarch in the Church has made a mistake in a blessing, and told a lie, I believe with all my heart and soul that the gospel is true, and I will not allow my faith to be upset. "

" If you and I desire the blessings of life, of health, of vigor of body and mind; if we desire the destroying angel to pass us by, as he did in the days of the children of Israel, we must obey the Word of Wisdom; then God is bound, and the blessing shall come to us. "

" When I was a child, next to my own mother, no woman that ever lived took as much interest in me, gave me as much motherly advice or seemed to love me more than did Sister Snow. I loved her with all my heart, and loved her hymn, 'O My Father.' "

" With the help of the Lord, I will do the best I can, and... with His help, I have no fear at all but what I can get along. "

" My mother tried to teach me when I was a small child to sing but failed because of my inability to carry a tune. "

" I know of nothing that brings greater joy to the human heart than laboring at home or abroad for the salvation of the souls of men. I know of nothing which gives us a greater love of all that is good, than teaching this Gospel of Jesus Christ. "

" 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. "

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

" What the world needs today more than anything else is an implicit faith in God, our Father, and in Jesus Christ, His Son, as the Redeemer of the world. "

" Let every Latter-day Saint give value received for everything he gets, whether it be in work, or whatever he does. "

" 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.' "

" Being an only child, my mother reared me very carefully. "

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" The Book of Mormon is in absolute harmony from start to finish with other sacred scriptures. There is not a doctrine taught in it that does not harmonize with the teachings of Jesus Christ. "

" When I joined a baseball club, the boys of my own age, and a little older, played in the first nine, those younger than myself played in the second, and those still younger in the third, and I played with them. "