‘Prophet Statesmen’ Archives
God Helps Us In All Phases of Life
Prophet Statesmen, Mark E. Petersen There are people in the Church who sometimes complain because some of their leaders, either bishops or stake presidents, or even occasionally one of the General Authorities, gives advice on practical, everyday, temporal matters. There are some who suppose that the direction of the Church leaders should be [...]
The ax hews at untruth no matter where the chips may fall
Prophet Statesmen, John A. Widstoe The Church exists for the welfare of its members. It holds to the doctrine that “men are that they might have joy.” Therefore, whatever affects human welfare, temporally or spiritually on earth or in heaven, is accepted as the concern of the Church. This doctrine leads the Church into problems of [...]
Alike In the Sight of God: Temporal and Spiritual
Prophet Statesmen, George Q. Cannon There is that terrible tradition, that has such strong hold of all our minds, that the Priesthood of God and the religion of Jesus Christ have nothing to do particularly with temporal matters. It is a tradition almost as old as Christianity. It has come down to us for generations and centuries and is fully [...]
A Time to Keep Our Heads and Stick to Our Moorings — David O. McKay
Prophet Statesmen, David O. McKay These are times when men should keep their heads, and not be swept from their moorings by every will-o'-the wisp theory that is offered as a panacea of our present ills. David O. McKay (1873-1970) served as ninth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Raise the Voice of Warning, Deliver Thy Soul
Prophet Statesmen, The Prophet Ezekiel Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the House of Israel; therefore hear the words at my mouth, and give them warning from me. When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same [...]
God-given Privileges — David O. McKay
Prophet Statesmen, David O McKay Next to life we express gratitude for the gift of free agency. When thou didst create man, thou placed within him part of thine omnipotence and bade him choose for himself. Liberty and conscience thus became a sacred part of human nature. Freedom not only to think, but to speak and to act is a God-given [...]
Socialist Threat: A Continuation of the War in Heaven — Ezra Taft Benson
Prophet Statesmen, Ezra Taft Benson Today, there is a great threat to freedom. The Church is prospering and growing, but all over the world the light of freedom is being diminished. A great struggle for the minds of men is now being waged. At issue is whether or not man's basic inalienable rights of life, liberty, property, and pursuit of [...]
Rally the Righteous, Provide the Balance of Strength — Ezra Taft Benson
Prophet Statesmen, Ezra Taft Benson In connection with the attack on the United States, the Lord told the Prophet Joseph Smith there would be an attempt to overthrow the country by destroying the Constitution. Joseph Smith predicted that the time would come when the Constitution would hang as it were by a thread, and at that time, ‘this [...]
At This Critical Juncture — Brigham Young
Prophet Statesmen, Brigham Young Will the Constitution be destroyed? No; it will be held inviolate by this people; and, as Joseph Smith said, ‘the time will come when the destiny of the nation will hang upon a single thread. At this critical juncture, this people will step forth and save it from the threatened destruction.’ It will be [...]
A Sacred Obligation — Ezra Taft Benson
Prophet Statesmen, Ezra Taft Benson If we truly cherish the heritage we have received, we must maintain the same virtues and . . . character of our stalwart forebears—faith in God, courage, industry, frugality, self-reliance, and integrity. We have the obligation to maintain what those who pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred [...]
The Scriptures Are the Standard for Distinguishing Truth and Error
Prophet Statesmen, D. Todd Christofferson God uses scripture to unmask erroneous thinking, false traditions, and sin with its devastating effects. He is a tender parent who would spare us needless suffering and grief and at the same time help us realize our divine potential. The scriptures, for example, discredit an ancient philosophy that [...]
Gullible Gulls — Marion G. Romney
Prophet Statesmen, President Marion G. Romney I clipped the following article from the Reader’s Digest some time ago. It reads: “In our friendly neighbor city of St. Augustine great flocks of sea gulls are starving amid plenty. Fishing is still good, but the gulls don’t know how to fish. For generations they have depended on the shrimp [...]
Fundamentals of U.S. Constitutional Law Inspired of God — M. Russell Ballard
Prophet Statesmen, M. Russell Ballard The principles and philosophies upon which the U.S. constitutional law is based are not simply the result of the best efforts of a remarkable group of brilliant men. They were inspired by God, and the rights and privileges guaranteed in the Constitution are God-given, not man-derived. The freedom and [...]
The Secular Costs of Unchastity — Neal A. Maxwell
Prophet Statesmen, Neal A. Maxwell There are, of course, some concerns associated with the seventh commandment that we share with the world. Both in the kingdom and in the world there is a desire to avoid the disease that often goes with unchastity and infidelity. People naively assumed that with the coming of antibiotics venereal disease would [...]
Chastity and Fitness for the Hereafter — Neal A. Maxwell
Prophet Statesmen, Neal A. Maxwell Alma said that we must bridle all our passions so that we can be “filled with love” (Alma 38:12). If such passions were actually true love, they would not need to be replaced with love. The Lord (in an 1839 revelation to the Prophet Joseph Smith) linked “charity towards all men” with letting virtue [...]
A Need for Articulate Advocacy of Chastity — Neal A. Maxwell
Prophet Statesmen, Neal A. Maxwell It is important for you to be philosophical defenders as well as practicers of chastity. Articulate advocacy is surely needed now with regard to some of the damaging balderdash we see and hear in the world pertaining to immoral life-styles. Austin Farrer warned, “Though argument does not create [...]
America, The Lord’s Base of Operations — Ezra Taft Benson
Prophet Statesmen, Ezra Taft Benson To us, this is not just another nation, not just a member of the family of nations. This is a great and glorious nation with a divine mission and a prophetic history and future. It has been brought into being under the inspiration of heaven. . . . God has kept this great nation, as it were, in the hollow [...]
The Most Ominous Threat — David O. McKay
Prophet Statesmen, David O. McKay The most ominous threat to the peace and happiness of mankind in this the twentieth century is not the probable misuse of the atomic bomb, but the dwindling in men’s hearts of faith in God. “Epochs of faith are epochs of fruitfulness; but epochs of unbelief, however glittering, are barren of all permanent [...]
As Giants to Pygmies — J. Reuben Clark Jr.
Prophet Statesmen, J. Reuben Clark Jr. Moses was no more prepared by the training and experience gained in the Court of Pharaoh for his great service of leading Israel from the bondage of Egypt, than were the framers of the Constitution prepared by training and experience for their work of providing a form of government that would “secure [...]
Eternal Right Must Still Stand Unshaken — Albert E. Bowen
Prophet Statesmen, Albert E. Bowen Those courses of behavior which harmonize with and conform to absolute spiritual values must be eternally right just as their opposites must be eternally wrong. Between the two there is undying conflict. They cannot accommodate themselves one to the other. If it were attempted to make adjustments between them [...]
The Free Market, The Only Answer — Ezra Taft Benson
Prophet Statesmen, Ezra Taft Benson The only safe and solid answer is the mechanism of a free market operating in an environment of really free private enterprise and free competition. Here everyone has a chance to cast his vote in the election which will decide what is a fair price, fair wage, and profit, and what should be produced and in [...]
The Great Neutral — J. Reuben Clark Jr.
Prophet Statesmen, J. Reuben Clark Jr. America, multi-raced and multi-nationed, is by tradition, by geography, by citizenry, by natural sympathy, and by material interest, the great neutral nation of the earth. God has so designed it. Drawn from all races, creeds, and nations, our sympathies run to every oppressed people. Our feelings engaged [...]
Seedbed of Socialism — Ambitious Agitators, Malcontents, and Idlers — J. Reuben Clark Jr.
Prophet Statesmen, J. Reuben Clark Jr. There are among us ambitious agitators and malcontents, those unwilling, and it may be unable, to meet the press and rivalry—most dear to freemen—of free competition among a free people. Nurtured frequently under systems of government and society alien to our own, they come to us and would prescribe [...]
Free Market Is the Only Answer — Ezra Taft Benson
Prophet Statesmen, Ezra Taft Benson The only safe and solid answer is the mechanism of a free market operating in an environment of really free private enterprise and free competition. Here everyone has a chance to cast his vote in the election which will decide what is a fair price, fair wage, and profit, and what should be produced and in [...]
The Devil’s Freedoms — Harold B. Lee
Prophet Statesmen, Harold B. Lee Some time, if you would have a stimulating mental exercise, sit down and carefully analyze the full implications of those vaunted “four freedoms” about which so much is said today. If you examine literally two of them, absolute freedom from all fear, and absolute freedom from all want, (1) you may find [...]
Early Church Warning Regarding Communism
Prophet Statesmen: Heber J. Grant, J. Reuben Clark Jr., David O McKay With great regret we learn from credible sources, governmental and others, that a few Church members are joining directly or indirectly, the Communists and are taking part in their activities. The Church does not interfere, and has no intention of trying to interfere, with [...]
Do You Wish to Be Free? — David O. McKay
Prophet Statesmen, David O. McKay There are many in the world who see hanging over the international horizon threatening clouds also. There are storms ahead! I am prompted by the outlook to take as a text for the few words that I shall say this morning, an encouraging thought from the Thirty-first Psalm: Be of good courage, and he shall [...]
Industry, Not Sloth, Should Be Admired and Rewarded — Heber J. Grant
Prophet Statesmen, Heber J. Grant Men should have a pride in doing their full share, and never want to be paid for that which they have not earned Men should be rewarded for doing the best that they can. There is a practice in some quarters, in the working world today, to tell a man how much he may do, regardless of his ability to do more, and [...]
A Christian Ethic Without Faith In God Fails — Albert E. Bowen
Prophet Statesmen, Albert E. Bowen A Christian Ethic Without Faith in God Fails. It cannot be forgotten that the scourging war, which has just devastated the earth, broke out right in the heart of so-called Christendom. Christian nation destroying Christian nation. The degradation left in its wake, the tragic collapse of morals, the [...]
Modernity Worthless Without Truth, Righteousness, and Mercy — David O. McKay
Prophet Statesmen, David O. McKay Undoubtedly we are living in one of the most epoch-making periods of the world. It is a time that demands clear thinking and sound judgment. It is not strange that the majority of men and women in this nuclear age are unhappy because they feel the foundations beneath them are tottering. Notwithstanding all [...]
