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What we are is more important than what we have or what is said of us.

Marvin J. Ashton

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Marvin J. Ashton
Age: 78 †
Born: 1915
Born: May 6
Died: 1994
Died: February 25
Clergyman
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Often our self-esteem is bruised by criticism.
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Do not doubt your abilities. Do not delay your worthy impressions. With God's help, you cannot fail. He will give you the courage to participate in meaningful change and purposeful living.
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Being of good cheer makes it possible for us to turn all of our sunsets into sunrises.
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Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now joy is us and always.
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All of us need to be constantly reminded it takes a heap of living and loving to make a house a home.
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I challenge youth to cooperate with parents who are concerned about your reading and your viewing. Be concerned yourself about what you take into your mind. Young people, you would never eat a meal of spoiled or contaminated food if you could help it, would you? Select your reading and viewing carefully and in good taste.
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One who practices pure religion soon discovers it is more rewarding to lift a man up than to hold him down.
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Some think the only way to get even, to get attention or advantage, or to win is to bash people. This kind of behavior is never appropriate. Oftentimes character and reputation and almost always self-esteem are destroyed under the hammer of this vicious practice.
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Sometimes when family members least deserve love, they need it the most.
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Enduring, or carrying on, is not just a matter of tolerating circumstances and hanging in there, but of pressing forward.
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Resentment and anger are not good for the soul. They are foul things.
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The discerning realize that it is not realistic to expect perfection in others when none of us is perfect...Meaningful progress can be made only when all of us can cast the motes out of our own eyes, leave judgment to our Father in Heaven, and lose ourselves in righteous living.
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The world is filled with too many of us who are inclined to indicate our love with an announcement or declaration. True love is a process. True love requires personal action. Love must be continuing to be real. Love takes time.
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A man must rise by his own efforts and walk by faith.
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The gospel is one of harmony, unity, and agreement. It must be presented in love, and with glad tidings, by those who are calm.
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Peace-not passion, not personal possessions, not personal accomplishments nor happiness-is one of the greatest blessings a man can receive.
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It is not so important whether a young man has been through the experience of a mission as it is whether the mission experience has been through him.
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