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It was a very limited practice carefully safeguarded. In 1890, that practice was discontinued.

Gordon B. Hinckley

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Gordon B. Hinckley
Age: 97 †
Born: 1910
Born: June 23
Died: 2008
Died: January 27
Hymnwriter
Prophet
Religious Leader
Salt Lake City
Utah
Gordon Bitner Hinckley
Gordon Hinckley
Safeguarded
Polygamy
Carefully
Limited
Practice
Discontinued

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Let everything that you do bring credit and honor to the Church, of which you are a member, and the Lord will bless you and magnify you. Let there be no animosity among you but only love, regardless of race, regardless of circumstances. Let us love one another as the Lord would have us do
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In terms of you happiness, in terms of the matters that make you proud or sad, nothing-I repeat, nothing-will have so profound an effect on you as the way your children turn out. You will either rejoice and boast of their accomplishments or you will weep, head in hands, bereft and forlorn, if they become a disappointment or an embarrassment to you.
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With the increase of missionary work throughout the world, there must be a comparable increase in the effort to make every convert feel at home in his or her ward or branch. . . . I invite every member to reach out in friendship and love for those who come into the Church as converts.
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Our Eternal Father lives. He stands as the great God of the universe, ruling in majesty and power. And yet He is my Father, to whom I may go in prayer with the assurance that He will hear, listen, and answer.
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We live in terribly complex times. We are confronted by very serious problems. Some of us are faced with sickness, with economic difficulties, with worry and concern over many matters. Our refuge, our peace, our well-being lie in walking in the way of the Lord.
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I almost stand in awe when I think of Joseph Smith. The angel appeared to him in 1823 - he said to this simple little boy, 'Your name should be known for good and evil throughout the entire world.'
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The most important step you have made or will make in your life is marriage. Its consequences are many, so important and so everlasting.. No other decision will have such tremendous consequences for the future.
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If we are to continue to have the freedoms that came of the inspiration of the Almighty to our Founding Fathers, we must return to the God who is their true Author.
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Love for the Lord, love for His servants the missionaries. Missionary work is a work of love and trust, and it has to be done on that basis.
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The family is a creation of God. The way to strengthen the nation is to strengthen the homes of the people.
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None of you need worry because you read something that was incompletely reported. You need not worry that I do not understand some matters of doctrine... I think I understand them thoroughly.
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God will bless us if we walk in humility.
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Avoid alcohol as you would a loathsome disease. Beer will do to you what hard liquor will do. Each contains alcohol in varying amounts.
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. . . as people serve, they grow in capacity. The time and effort is not a sacrifice because there is returned more than is given.
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Fear not only believe. This is a time to make resolutions that will be binding upon you. This is a season to set standards that will hold you to the right course and make you happy now and in the years that follow.
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Our kindness may be the most persuasive argument for that which we believe.
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It is good to look to the past to gain appreciation for the present and perspective for the future.
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This will be the most important decision of your life, the individual whom you marry.
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Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
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