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Spencer W. Kimball
Age: 90 †
Born: 1895
Born: March 28
Died: 1985
Died: November 5
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Salt Lake City
Utah
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We ought to encourage our children to know their relatives. We need to talk of them, make effort to correspond with them, visit them, join family organizations, etc.
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Dream beautiful dreams and then work to make those dreams come true.
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I believe that the telephone and telegraph and other such conveniences were permitted by the Lord to be developed for the express purpose of building the kingdom. Others may use them for business, professional or other purposes, but basically they are to build the kingdom.
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To be mediocre, when only application and diligence would have netted superiority, is an error akin to sin.
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Preparedness, when properly pursued, is a way of life, not a sudden, spectacular program. We could refer to all the components of personal and family preparedness, not in relation to holocaust or disaster, but in cultivating a life-style that is on a day-to-day basis its own reward.
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If we live in such a way that the considerations of eternity press upon us, we will make better decisions.
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You women are daughters of God. You are precious. You are made in the image of our Heavenly Mother.
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Success should not necessarily be gauged by always reaching the goal set, but by progress and attainment.
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What relief! What comfort! What joy! Those laden with transgressions and sorrows and sin may be forgiven and cleansed and purified if they will return to their Lord, learn of him, and keep his commandments
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Every divorce is the result of selfishness on the part of one or both parties to a marriage contract.
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How could a person possibly become what he is not thinking? Nor is any thought, when persistently entertained, too small to have its effect. The 'divinity that shapes our ends' is indeed ourselves.
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Any excuse for non-performance, no matter how valid, weakens character.
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Humility is the beginning virtue of all exaltation.
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Now is the time to set your life's goals. Now is the time to set your standards firmly and then hold to them throughout your life.
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My life is like my shoes, worn out by service.
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When a defiled man is born again, his habits are changed, his thoughts cleansed, his attitudes regenerated and elevated, his activities put in total order, and everything about him that was dirty, degenerate or reprobate is washed and made clean.
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Peace of mind, joy and happiness cannot be purchased with money or worldly goods.
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The Lord's way builds individual self esteem and develops and heals the dignity of the individual, whereas the world's way depresses the individual's view of himself and causes deep resentment
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We must lengthen our stride and must do it now because we over ate and feel fat.
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Young men do not usually become inactive in the Church because they are given too many significant things to do.
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