As explained in my previous post, here are some characteristics and favourites of the prophets since the early-mid 1900s according to the personal experiences of Thomas S. Monson:
Heber J. Grant
"Do What is Right, Let the Consequence Follow"
"That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Persistence
George Albert Smith
"Let Us Oft Speak Kind Words"
"There's a tug-of-war going on between the Lord and the adversary..."
Compassion
David O. McKay
"Oh Say, What is Truth"
"True Christianity is love in action" -David O. McKay
Consideration
Joseph Fielding Smith
"Prayer is the Soul's Sincere Desire"
"Wickedness never was happiness" -Alma 41:10
Gospel Scholarship
Harold B. Lee
"Praise to the Man"
"Stand ye in holy places and be not moved" -Harold B. Lee
Whisperings of the Spirit
Spencer W. Kimball
"I Need Thee Every Hour"
"My life is like my shoes--to be worn out in the service of the Lord" -Spencer W. Kimball
Dedication
Ezra Taft Benson
"How Great Thou Art"
" What manner of men ought ye to be? Verily, I say unto you, even as I am." -3 Nephi 27:27
Love
Howard W. Hunter
"Have I Done Any Good in the World Today?"
"Let another man praise thee, and not thine own lips" -Proverbs 27:2
See the good in people
Gordon B. Hinckley
"God of Our Fathers, Known of Old" (Rudyard Kipling)
"And now, after the many testimonies which have been given of him, this is the testimony, last of all, which we give of him: That he lives! For we saw him, even on the right hand of God; and we heard the voice bearing record that he is the Only Begotten of the Father." -Doctrine and Covenants 76:22-23
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