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There isn't anything else more important than taking the gospel to the world.

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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
Missionary
Gospel
Taking
Else
Anything
Important
World

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Any excuse for non-performance, no matter how valid, weakens character.
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If you are going to err, err on the side of mercy.
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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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We should be involved in quiet acts of selfless service.
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In true marriage there must be a union of minds as well as of hearts. Emotions must not wholly determine decisions, but the mind and the heart, strengthened by fasting and prayer and serious consideration, will give one a maximum chance of marital happiness.
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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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Do not pray to marry the one that you love, but to love the one that you marry.
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Learn all you can. Growth comes from setting your goals high and reaching for the stars.
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I am comforted by the assurance that there will be beautiful music in heaven, and for that I am most grateful.
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The nation is built upon the foundation of its homes and the home upon its families.
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Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and comfort, but if we were to close the doors upon sorrow and distress, we might be excluding our greatest friends and benefactors. Suffering can make saints of people as they learn patience, long-suffering, and self-mastery.
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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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And you fathers, are you so busy making a living, playing golf, bowling, hunting, that you do not have time to talk to your boys and hold them close to you and win their confidence? Or do you brush them off, so that they dare not come and talk about these things with you?
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My life is like my shoes, worn out by service.
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Time cannot be recycled. When a moment has gone, it is really gone. Wise time management is really wise management of ourselves.
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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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Profanity is the effort of a feeble brain to express itself forcibly.
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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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The Lord's way builds individual self esteem and develops and heals the dignity of the individual, whereas the world's way depresses the individual's view of himself and causes deep resentment
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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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