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To give ourselves totally to another person, as we do in marriage, is the most trusting step we take in any human relationship.

Jeffrey R. Holland

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Jeffrey R. Holland
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: December 3
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If something is buried in the past, leave it buried. . . . Such dwelling on past lives, including past mistakes, is just not right! It is not the gospel of Jesus Christ. . . . In cases of marriage and family, . . . we can end up destroying so many others.
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Faith is for the future. Faith builds on the past but never longs to stay there. Faith trusts that God has great things in store for each of us and that Christ truly is the “high priest of good things to come” (Hebrews 9:11).
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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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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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No one has failed who keeps trying and keeps praying.
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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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And if those children are unresponsive, maybe you can't teach them yet, but you can love them. And if you love them today, maybe you can teach them tomorrow.
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(Phillipians 3:14) No Lots wife here. No looking back at Sodom and Gomorrah here. Paul knows it is out there in the future, up ahead wherever heaven is taking us, that we will win the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
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