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People must be changed...goodness cannot be legislated.
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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Salt Lake City
Utah
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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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We learn to do by doing.
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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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The nation is built upon the foundation of its homes and the home upon its families.
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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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Sickness sometimes is a great blessing. People become angels through sickness.
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To be a righteous woman during the winding up scenes on this earth, before the second coming of our Savior, is an especially noble calling... She has been placed here to help to enrich, to protect, and to guard the home--which is society's basic and most noble institution.
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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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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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Peace of mind, joy and happiness cannot be purchased with money or worldly goods.
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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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Marriage is perhaps the most vital of all the decisions and has the most far reaching effects.
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Dream beautiful dreams and then work to make those dreams come true.
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No true Latter-Day Saint, while physically or emotionally able will voluntarily shift the burden of his own or his family's well-being to someone else. So long as he can, under the inspiration of the Lord and with his own labors, he will supply himself and his family with the spiritual and temporal necessities of life.
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Any excuse for non-performance, no matter how valid, weakens character.
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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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Love is like a flower, and like the body, it needs constant feeding...And with love, also, cannot be expected to last forever unless it is continually fed with portions of love, the manifestation of esteem and admiration, the expressions of gratitude, and the consideration of unselfishness.
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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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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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