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George Q. Cannon

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George Q. Cannon

George Q. Cannon is described in biographical records as an American religious leader (1827–1901) (1827–1901). The selections gathered here touch on blessings, nature of god, trials. This profile brings the attributed quotations together with their available source information.

FEATURED QUOTE
“God will not desert us. He never has, and He never will. He cannot do it. It is not in His character to do so.”
— George Q. Cannon

Biography at a glance

  • Profile: American religious leader (1827–1901)
  • Life: 1827–1901
  • Quotes in this collection: 8

Life and work

The available biographical record identifies George Q. Cannon through the role above. This collection includes 8 quotations credited to George Q. Cannon. Each quotation page preserves its own citation, when supplied, so readers can follow the passage back to its stated context.

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Quotes by George Q. Cannon

8 quotes

The Saints should not imagine that because they know the truth and the Work of God at the present time, that they will always know these things and therefore be able to stand. If they lose the Holy Spirit through their transgressions, from that moment their knowledge respecting the Work of God ceases to increase and becomes dead; a short time only elapses before such persons deny the faith. They may not deny that the Work was ever true, or that the Elders were ever the servants of God, but they will place a limit and say, ‘Up to such a time the work was true and the Elders were all right, but, after that, they went astray,’ – that very period being the time at which they themselves had committed some act or acts to forfeit the Spirit of God and kill the growth of that knowledge which they had had bestowed upon them. This has been the case in numerous instances in the past. . . . It is plain that it is they who have transgressed, and thereby driven the Spirit of the Lord from them; and at the very time they say the Church of God strayed, they themselves were guilty of transgression.

“Knowledge, without the Aid of the Spirit of the Lord, Not Sufficient to Save,” Millennial Star, 8 Aug. 1863, pp. 505–6.

— George Q. Cannon

“If any of us are imperfect, it is our duty to pray for the gift that will make us perfect. . . . No man ought to say, “Oh, I cannot help this; it is my nature.” He is not justified in it, for the reason that God has promised to give strength to correct these things, and to give gifts that will eradicate them. . . . He wants His Saints to be perfected in the truth. For this purpose He gives these gifts, and bestows them upon those who seek after them, in order that they may be a perfect people upon the face of the earth, notwithstanding their many weaknesses, because God has promised to give the gifts that are necessary for their perfection.”

Millennial Star, April 23, 1894, 260–61

— George Q. Cannon

“If any of us are imperfect, it is our duty to pray for the gift that will make us perfect. Have I imperfections? I am full of them. What is my duty: To pray to God to give me the gifts that will correct these imperfections. If I am an angry man, it is my duty to pray for charity, which suffereth long and is kind. Am I an envious man? It is my duty to seek for charity, which envieth not. So with all the gifts of the Gospel. They are intended for this purpose. No man ought to say, ‘Oh, I cannot help this; it is my nature.’ He is not justified in it, for the reason that God has promised to give strength to correct these things, and to give gifts that will eradicate them.”

Millennial Star, 23 Apr. 1894, 260

— George Q. Cannon

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