"There is no excellence without
study and labor. This world is full of good and full of truth. It is also full
of evil and error. It is for us to search for the truth and make it outs, and
incorporate it into our lives and to eschew all error and evil. Seek to be good
and do good. None have the incentive that the Latter-day Saints have. We
believe this knowledge of good works we take with us, and it helps to make our
salvation." (J. Reuben Clark, Jr., sermon at funeral services of George R.
Richards, August 11, 1950, in The
Life of George F. Richards: President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints [Provo, Utah: J. Grant
Stevenson, 1965], 152)
