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It is our duty to try to be perfect, … to improve each day, and look upon our course last week and do things better this week do things better today than we did them yesterday
Lorenzo Snow
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Lorenzo Snow
Age: 87 †
Born: 1814
Born: April 3
Died: 1901
Died: October 10
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We ought to feel in our hearts that God is our Father, and that while we make mistakes and are weak yet if we live as nearly perfect as we can all will be well with us.
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. . . This is the high destiny of the sons of God, they who overcome, who are obedient to His commandments, who purify themselves even as He is pure. They are to become like Him they will see Him as He is they will behold His face and reign with Him in His glory, becoming like unto Him in every particular.
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Make others happy, and you will be happy yourself.
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We should try to learn the nature of [the spirit of revelation]. . . . This is the grand means that the Lord has provided for us, that we may know the light, and not be groveling continually in the dark.
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Be better today than you were yesterday, and be better tomorrow than you are today.
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We thank thee for this opportunity to show our love for these heroes who have accomplished such wonders for the beloved United States, which was founded by noble and inspired men.
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The idea is not to do good because of the praise of men but to do good because in doing good we develop godliness within us, and this being the case we shall become allied to godliness, which will in time become part and portion of our being.
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As man now is, God once was as God is now man may be.
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I have never seen the day when I was discouraged, as I could always see glorious blessings ahead.
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Every trial a man goes through, if he is faithful in that trial and does honor to God and his religion he has espoused, at the end of that trial or affliction that individual is nearer to God, nearer in regard to the increase of faith, wisdom, knowledge and power, and hence is more confident in calling upon the Lord for those things he desires.
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There is no Latter day Saint who dies after having lived a faithful life who will lose anything because of having failed to do certain things when opportunities were not furnished him or her.
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Our religion should be incorporated within ourselves, a part of our being that cannot be laid off.
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We trace the hand of the Almighty in framing the Constitution of our land
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