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Profanity is the effort of a feeble brain to express itself forcibly.

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Spencer W. Kimball
Age: 90 †
Born: 1895
Born: March 28
Died: 1985
Died: November 5
Businessperson
Prophet
Salt Lake City
Utah
Brain
Forcibly
Profanity
Feeble
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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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We are in a position, as musicians, to touch the souls of those who listen.
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Time cannot be recycled. When a moment has gone, it is really gone. Wise time management is really wise management of ourselves.
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Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and comfort, but if we were to close the doors upon sorrow and distress, we might be excluding our greatest friends and benefactors. Suffering can make saints of people as they learn patience, long-suffering, and self-mastery.
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Learn all you can. Growth comes from setting your goals high and reaching for the stars.
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One of the most fallacious doctrines originated by Satan and propounded by man is that man is saved alone by the grace of God that belief in Jesus Christ alone is all that is needed for salvation
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If I immerse myself in the scriptures...I find myself loving more intensely those whom I must love with all my heart and mind and strength, and loving them more. I find it easier to abide their counsel.
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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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Young men do not usually become inactive in the Church because they are given too many significant things to do.
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We are, on the whole, an idolatrous people...
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Destroy the seed and the plant will never grow. Man alone, of all creatures of earth, can change his thought pattern and become the architect of his destiny.
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The day obedience becomes a quest and not an irritation is the day you gain power.
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The time will come when only those who believe deeply and actively in the family will be able to preserve their families in the midst of the gathering evil around us.
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The more we are guided by eternal considerations in our conduct, the better we will manage our mortality.
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My plea therefore is this: Let us get our instruments tightly strung and our melodies sweetly sung. Let us not die with our music still in us. Let us rather use this precious mortal probation to move confidently and gloriously upward toward the eternal life which God our Father gives to those who keep his commandments.
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The best way to resist temptation is to avoid it. Prevention is far, far better than repentance.
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