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

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
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World
Missionary
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The day obedience becomes a quest and not an irritation is the day you gain power.
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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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To be a mother is a woman's greatest vocation in life. She is a partner with God. No being has a position of such power and influence. She holds in her hands the destiny of nations, for to her comes the responsibility and opportunity of molding the nation's citizens.
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If I immerse myself in the scriptures...I find myself loving more intensely those whom I must love with all my heart and mind and strength, and loving them more. I find it easier to abide their counsel.
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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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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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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 are not measured by the trials we meet -- only by those we overcome.
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Suffering can make saints of people as they learn patience, long-suffering and self-mastery.
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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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We are, on the whole, an idolatrous people...
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Peace, sweet peace finally comes to men when they humbly yield to the gentle pressure of the Spirit.
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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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Humility is the beginning virtue of all exaltation.
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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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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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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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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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