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We are in a position, as musicians, to touch the souls of those who listen.

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
Musician
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There are great challenges ahead of us, giant opportunities to be met. I welcome that exciting prospect and feel to say to the Lord, humbly, 'Give me this MOUNTAIN,' give me these challenges.
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It is through repentance that the Lord Jesus Christ can work his healing miracle, infusing us with strength when we are weak, health when we are sick, hope when we are downhearted, love when we feel empty, and understanding when we search for truth.
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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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They who reach down into the depths of life where, in the stillness, the voice of God is heard, have the stabilizing power which carries them poised and serene through the hurricane of difficulties.
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The burning bushes, the smoking mountains, . . . the Cumorahs, and the Kirtlands were realities but they were the exceptions. . . . Always expecting the spectacular, many will miss entirely the constant flow of revealed communication.
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If you are going to err, err on the side of mercy.
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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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We are not measured by the trials we meet -- only by those we overcome.
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To be mediocre, when only application and diligence would have netted superiority, is an error akin to sin.
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We should be involved in quiet acts of selfless service.
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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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Only when you lift a burden, God will lift your burden. Divine paradox this! The man who staggers and falls because his burden is too great can lighten that burden by taking on the weight of another's burden. You get by giving, but your part of giving must be given first.
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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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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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Sickness sometimes is a great blessing. People become angels through sickness.
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I am convinced that each of us, at some time in our lives, must discover the scriptures for ourselves—and not just discover them once, but rediscover them again and again.
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Dream beautiful dreams and then work to make those dreams come true.
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The day obedience becomes a quest and not an irritation is the day you gain power.
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We want you to be ready with your personal storehouses filled with at least a year's supply. You don't argue why it cannot be done you just plan to organize and get it done.
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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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