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When we . . . read and study the scriptures, benefits and blessings of many kinds come to us. This is the most profitable of all study in which we could engage.

Howard W. Hunter

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Howard W. Hunter
Age: 87 †
Born: 1907
Born: November 14
Died: 1995
Died: March 3
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Whatever Jesus lays His hands upon, lives. If He lays is hands upon a marriage, it lives. If He is allowed to lay His hands on the family, it lives.
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Tender expressions of love and affection toward children are as much the responsibility of the father as the mother. Tell your children you love them.
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If we will be true and faithful to our principles, committed to a life of honesty and integrity, then no king or contest or fiery furnace will be able to compromise us. For the success of the kingdom of God on earth, may we stand as witnesses for Him at all times and in all things, and in all places that we may be in, even until death.
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God's chief way of acting is by persuasion and patience and long-suffering, not by coercion and stark confrontation. He acts by gentle solicitation and by sweet enticement. He always acts with unfailing respect for the freedom and independence that we possess.
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I have learned that those who engage in family history research and then perform the temple ordinance work for those whose names they have found will know the additional joy of receiving both halves of the blessing.
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Faith is the element that builds the bridge in the absence of concrete evidence.
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Being happily and successfully married is generally not so much a matter of marrying the right person as it is being the right person.
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Tenderness and respect-never selfishness-must be the guiding principles in the intimate relationship between husband and wife
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Earn the respect and confidence of your children through your loving relationship with them. A righteous father protects his children with his time and presence in their social, educational, and spiritual activities and responsibilities.
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Perhaps no promise in life is more reassuring than that promise of divine assistance and spiritual guidance in times of need. It is a gift freely given from heaven, a gift that we need from our earliest youth through the very latest days of our lives.
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It is the deepest desire of my heart to have every member of the Church worthy to enter the temple.
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A righteous father protects his children with his time and presence.
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If you feel that . . . what you do this year or in the years to come does not make you very famous, take heart. Most of the best people who ever lived weren't very famous either.
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The real spirit of Christmas lies in the life and mission of the Master.
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To discipline ourselves through fasting brings us in tune with God, and fast day provides an occasion to set aside the temporal so that we might enjoy the higher qualities of the spiritual. As we fast on that day we learn and better understand the needs of those who are less fortunate.
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Those who are filled with the love of Christ do not seek to force others to do better, they inspire others to do better.
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The family is the most important unit in time and in eternity and, as such, transcends every other interest in life.
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Courage is acting in spite of fear.
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What a glorious thing is life, surrounded by the beauties of the world in which we live.
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The path of repentance, though hard at times, lifts one ever upward and leads to a perfect forgiveness.
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