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If men are really humble, they will realize that they discover, but do not create, truth.

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
Men
Discover
Humble
Realize
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Truth
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O timid one, awaken, exert yourself, draw back the curtains your training and background have hung over the windows of your soul.
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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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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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It is vital that we serve each other in the kingdom. . . . So often, our acts of service consist of simple encouragement or of giving . . . help with mundane tasks, but what glorious consequences can flow . . . from small but deliberate deeds!
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It is not easy to be at peace in today’s troubled world. Necessarily peace is a personal acquisition. … It can be attained only through maintaining constantly a repentant attitude, seeking forgiveness of sins both large and small, and thus coming ever closer to God.
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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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I am not afraid of death. What I am afraid of is that I will meet the Saviour and He will say, 'You could have done better'
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They who get off on tangents and ride hobby horses to death are they who become fanatic. Let them understand that they must be tolerant of others faults but never accept as justifiable their own.
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There are many upright and faithful who live all the commandments and whose lives and prayers keep the world from destruction.
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We must remember that those mortals we meet in parking lots, offices, elevators, and elsewhere are that portion of mankind God has given us to love and to serve. It will do us little good to speak of the general brotherhood of mankind if we cannot regard those who are all around us as our brothers and sisters.
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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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Suffering can make saints of people as they learn patience, long-suffering and self-mastery.
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Procrastination-thou wretched thief of time and opportunity!
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The leaven of true leadership cannot lift others unless we are with and serve those to be led.
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What are we to fear when the Lord is with us? Can we not take the Lord at his word and exercise a particle of faith in him?
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We have always understood that the foundations of the family, as an eternal unit, were laid even before this earth was created! Society without basic family life is without foundation and will disintegrate into nothingness.
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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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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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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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