Heber C. Kimball

Some say that they have not faith, that they cannot believe. What is faith? It is confidence. What is confidence? It is faith. Some people are striving and striving to get faith, when saving faith is simply confidence in God, flowing from walking in obedience to His commandments. When you have confidence in yourself, in any man, woman, or child, you have faith; and when you have not confidence, you have not faith. I believe they are co-partners, and the principle of faith and confidence is synonymous to me.

Heber C. Kimball  |  Journal of Discourses, 4:249

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“Who are his angels? They are men who stood fast through tribulation; they are prophets and apostles and patriarchs who once lived upon the earth, and bore testimony of the truth of the Gospel of the Son of God, the same Gospel that we preach.”

Heber C. Kimball  |  JD 10:100, Heber C. Kimball, How to Gain Eternal Life, Etc.

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“Look at the animal creation, they were all created by law, and will fulfill that law by which they were created. But see the feeling and disposition that we have in our hearts to be cruel towards animals, and that same passion that we cultivate towards the brute creation, mankind by-and-by will have towards one another.”

Heber C. Kimball  |  JD 9:335, Heber C. Kimball, The Course the Saints Should Pursue, Etc.

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