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Don't do anything stupid.

Jeffrey R. Holland

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Jeffrey R. Holland
Age: 83
Born: 1940
Born: December 3
Educator
Priest
Writer
St. George
Utah
Jeffrey Roy Holland
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Dads, is it too bold to hope that our children might have some small portion of the feeling for us that the Divine Son felt for His Father?
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After an encounter with the living Son of the living God, nothing is ever again to be as it was before.
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So be kind, and be grateful that God is kind. It is a happy way to live.
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No one has failed who keeps trying and keeps praying.
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So we have neighbors to bless, children to protect, the poor to lift up, and the truth to defend. We have wrongs to make right, truths to share, and good to do. In short, we have a life of devoted discipleship to give in demonstrating our love of the Lord. We can’t quit and we can’t go back.
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True love blooms when we care more about another person than we care about ourselves. That is Christ's great atoning example for us, and it ought to be more evident in the kindness we show, the respect we give, and the selflessness and courtesy we employ in our personal relationships.
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No one would wish a bad marriage on anyone. But where do we think good marriages come from? They don't spring full blown from the head of Zeus any more than does a good education...Why should a marriage require fewer tears and less toil and shabbier commitment than your job or your clothes or your car?
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No one of us is less treasured or cherished of God than another. I testify that he loves each of us--insecuritie s, anxieties, self-image, and all.
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If we constantly focus on the stones in our mortal path, we will almost surely miss the beautiful flower or cool stream provided by a loving Father who outlined our journey.
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Sometimes it seems especially difficult to submit to great tribulation when we look around and see others seemingly much less obedient who triumph even as we weep. But time is measured only unto man, says Alma (see Alma 40:8), and God has a very good memory.
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Your love for Jesus Christ and your discipleship in His cause must be the consuming preoccupation and passion of your mortality.
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When life is hard, remember - we are not the first to ask, 'Is there no other way?
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Teach your children that many of the blessings of the Church are available to them because you and they give tithes and offerings to the Church. Teach them that those blessings could come virtually no other way.
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Trust in God. Hold on to His love. Know that one day the dawn will break brightly and all shadows of mortality will flee.
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Don't hyperventilate about something that happened at 9:00 in the morning when the grace of God is trying to reward you at 6:00 in the evening.
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We must not pull away from our children. We must keep trying, keep reaching, keep praying, keep listening. We must keep them within the clasp of our arms.
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What we are shines more brightly than anything we say or do. If we are to fill the world with light, we must first face any tattered remnant of darkness that remains in our own souls.
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Don't you quit! You keep walking. You keep trying. There is help & happiness ahead.
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We are making our appearance on the stage of mortality in the greatest dispensation of the gospel ever given to mankind, and we need to make the most of it.
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Missionary work is not easy because salvation is not a cheap experience.
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