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Any excuse for non-performance, no matter how valid, weakens character.
Spencer W. Kimball
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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
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Do not make small goals because they do not have the magic to stir men's souls.
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As we give, we find that sacrifice brings forth the blessings of heaven, and in the end, we learn that it was no sacrifice at all.
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You are unique, and there may be incidents in your experience that are more noble and praiseworthy in their way than those recorded in any other life. There may be a flash of illumination here and a story of faithfulness there you should truthfully record your real self and not what other people may see in you.
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The essence of the miracle of forgiveness is that it brings peace to the previously anxious, restless, frustrated, perhaps tormented soul.
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Modern idols or false gods can take such forms as clothes, homes, businesses, machines, automobiles, pleasure boats, and numerous other material deflectors.
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Your life is your own, to develop or to destroy. You can blame others little and yourself almost totally if that life is not a productive, worthy, full, and abundant one.
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Profanity is the effort of a feeble brain to express itself forcibly.
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Dream beautiful dreams and then work to make those dreams come true.
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There is no doubt that the life one leads, and the thoughts one thinks are registered plainly in his face.
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Homosexuality is an ugly sin, repugnant to those who find no temptation in it, as well as to many past offenders who are seeking a way out of its clutches. All such deviations from normal, proper heterosexual relationships are not merely unnatural but wrong in the sight of God.
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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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It is in the doing that the real blessing comes. Do it! That's our motto.
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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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Young men do not usually become inactive in the Church because they are given too many significant things to do.
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By one means or another, the swiftest method of rejection of the holy prophets has been to find a pretext, however false or absurd, to dismiss the man so that his message could also be dismissed.
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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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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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If joy and peace and rewards were instantaneously given the doer of good, there would be no evil-all would do good but not because of the rightness of doing good. There would be no test of strength, no development of character, no growth of powers, no free agency, only satanic controls.
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Waste is unjustified, and especially the waste of time limited as that commodity is in our days of probation. One must live, not only exist he must do, not merely be he must grow, not just vegetate.
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Marriage is perhaps the most vital of all the decisions and has the most far-reaching effects...It affects not only the two people involved, but also their families and particularly their children and their children's children down through the many generations
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