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No amount of rationalizing can change God's laws. No amount of fashion designing can turn immodesty into virtue, and no amount of popularity can change sin into righteousness.
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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Now is the time to set your life's goals. Now is the time to set your standards firmly and then hold to them throughout your life.
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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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Get a notebook, my young folks, a journal that will last through all time, and maybe the angels may quote from it for eternity. Begin today and write in it your goings and comings, your deepest thoughts, your achievements and your failures, your associations and your triumphs, your impressions and your testimonies.
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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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In my office...I have a little sign and it says, 'Do it!' I suppose if I have learned anything in life, it is that we are to keep moving, keep trying-as long as we breathe! If we do, we will be surprised at how much more can still be done.
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What are we to fear when the Lord is with us? Can we not take the Lord at his word and exercise a particle of faith in him?
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Each of us has more opportunities to do good and to be good than we ever use.
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Preparedness, when properly pursued, is a way of life, not a sudden, spectacular program.
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Racial prejudice is of ignorance. There is no place for it.
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The more we serve our fellowmen in appropriate ways, the more substance there is to our souls.
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By one means or another, the swiftest method of rejection of the holy prophets has been to find a pretext, however false or absurd, to dismiss the man so that his message could also be dismissed.
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Your own private journal should record the way you face up to challenges that beset you. Do not suppose life changes so much that your experiences will not be interesting to your posterity. Experiences of work, relations with people, and an awareness of the rightness and wrongness of actions will always be relevant.
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