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In our time the only restraint left is self-retraint.

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
Time
Restraint
Left
Self

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Be a woman of Christ. Cherish your esteemed place in the sight of God. He needs you. This church needs you. The world needs you. A woman's abiding trust in God and unfailing devotion to things of the Spirit have always been an anchor when the wind and the waves of life were fiercest.
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Perhaps no more beautiful passages have ever been written about the Savior's atonement and crucifixion than those written by Isaiah.
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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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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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However many chances you think you have missed, however many mistakes you feel you have made, ... you have not traveled beyond the reach of divine love.
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Just because God is God, just because Christ is Christ, they cannot do other than care for us and bless us and help us if we will but come unto them, approaching their throne of grace in meekness and lowliness of heart. They can't help but bless us. They have to. It is their nature.
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He has, He reminds us, graven thee upon the palms of my hands (1 Nephi 21:16). Considering the incomprehensible cost of the Crucifixion, Christ is not going to turn His back on us now.
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Defend your beliefs with courtesy and with compassion, but defend them.
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My own great-grandfather, who said simply enough, No wicked man could write such a book as this and no good man would write it unless it were true and he were commanded of God to do so.
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Whatever else the Book of Mormon makes clear, it makes clear that every soul in every dispensation is precious to God, and therefore no age or era was-or is-left without its witness of Christ.
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I especially wish to praise and encourage young mothers. The work of a mother is hard, too often unheralded work... Do the best you can through these years, but whatever else you do, cherish that role that is so uniquely yours and for which heaven itself sends angels to watch over you and your little ones.
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I testify that one cannot come to full faith in this latter-day work—and thereby find the fullest measure of peace and comfort in these, our times—until he or she embraces the divinity of the Book of Mormon and the Lord Jesus Christ, of whom it testifies.
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Don't you quit! You keep walking. You keep trying. There is help & happiness ahead.
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There is no convenient Messiah. Salvation comes only through discipline and sacrifice.
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Rights are best guarded when each person and group guards for others those rights they wish guarded for themselves.
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Rich or poor, we are to “do what we can” when others are in need.
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Pray earnestly and fast with purpose and devotion. Some difficulties, like devils, do not come out save by fasting and by prayer. Ask in righteousness and you shall receive. Knock with conviction and it shall be opened unto you.
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There should be no more shame in acknowledging (mental illness) than in acknowledging a battle with high blood pressure or the sudden appearance of a malignant tumor.
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A life without problems or limitations or challenges--life without opposition in all things, as Lehi phrased it (2 Nephi 2:11)--would paradoxically but in very fact be less rewarding and less ennobling than one which confronts--even frequently confronts--difficulty and disappointment and sorrow.
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