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The singing of our sacred hymns, written by the servants of God, has a powerful effect in converting people to the principles of the Gospel, and in promoting peace and spiritual growth.

Heber J. Grant

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Heber J. Grant
Age: 88 †
Born: 1856
Born: November 22
Died: 1945
Died: May 14
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I consider it one of the greatest accomplishments of my life that I have learned to sing.
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If a man has the assurance within his own heart that he is worthy, and that he is laboring to the best of his ability to do good, he can stand up under the condemnation, the criticism and the censure of those by whom he is surrounded.
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Every individual can improve from day to day, from year to year, and have greater capacity to do things as the years come and the years go.
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In times of temptation, of sorrow, of peace and of blessing, let us pray always, both alone and with our families.
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Being an only child, my mother reared me very carefully.
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We do appeal to all men and women, realizing the responsibility resting upon them, to seek God our heavenly Father to guide them politically as well as religiously, and to stand for right and for those things that are for the good of this nation.
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No matter in what land we may dwell the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ makes us brothers and sisters, interested in each other, eager to understand and know each other.
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I do not believe we accomplish very much in life unless we are enthusiastic, unless we are in earnest, and unless we practice what we preach.
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The aim of the Church is to help the people to help themselves. Work is to be re-enthroned as the ruling principle of the lives of our Church membership
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The Lord does not need your tithing, as far as He is concerned, but you need it for your growth, spiritually and temporally, that the windows of heaven may be opened and the Spirit of the living God given to you.
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There is no true Latter-day Saint who would not rather bury a son or a daughter than to have him or her lose his or her chastity - realizing that chastity is of more value than anything else in all the world.
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May we be strengthened with the understanding that being blessed does not mean that we shall always be spared all the disappointments and difficulties of life.
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No obstacles are insurmountable when God commands and we obey.
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I believe unless we have ambition to accomplish things and to do things that we amount to but very little in the battle of life.
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I have reached out my hand, I have plucked the fruits of the Gospel, I have eaten of them, and they are sweet, yea, above all that is sweet.
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If we are striving, if we are working, if we are trying, to the best of our ability, to improve day by day, then we are in the line of our duty.
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Thank God we are not to be judged by the opinions of our fellows, but by the work that we do.
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No man can teach the Gospel of Jesus Christ under the inspiration of the living God and with power from on high unless he is living it.
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I have no animosity against any living soul.
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One can never tell what will be the result of faithful service rendered, nor do we know when it will come back to us or to those with whom we are associated. The reward may not come at the time, but in dividends later. I believe we will never lose anything in life by giving service, by making sacrifices, and doing the right thing.
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