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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.

Spencer W. Kimball

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Spencer W. Kimball
Age: 90 †
Born: 1895
Born: March 28
Died: 1985
Died: November 5
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Racial prejudice is of ignorance. There is no place for it.
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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 should be involved in quiet acts of selfless service.
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I have learned that it is by serving that we learn how to serve. When we engaged in the service of our fellowmen, not only do our deeds assist them but we put our own problems in fresher perspective. When we concern ourselves more with others, there is less time to be concerned with ourselves
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Marriage is perhaps the most vital of all the decisions and has the most far reaching effects.
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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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Learn all you can. Growth comes from setting your goals high and reaching for the stars.
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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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The nation is built upon the foundation of its homes and the home upon its families.
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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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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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Some of the greatest sermons that have ever been preached were preached by the singing of a song.
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Sickness sometimes is a great blessing. People become angels through sickness.
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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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