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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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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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Some of the greatest sermons that have ever been preached were preached by the singing of a song.
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Dream beautiful dreams and then work to make those dreams come true.
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As we give, we find that sacrifice brings forth the blessings of heaven, and in the end, we learn that it was no sacrifice at all.
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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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We learn to do by doing.
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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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If men are really humble, they will realize that they discover, but do not create, truth.
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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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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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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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Preparedness, when properly pursued, is a way of life, not a sudden, spectacular program. We could refer to all the components of personal and family preparedness, not in relation to holocaust or disaster, but in cultivating a life-style that is on a day-to-day basis its own reward.
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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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They who get off on tangents and ride hobby horses to death are they who become fanatic. Let them understand that they must be tolerant of others faults but never accept as justifiable their own.
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Success should not necessarily be gauged by always reaching the goal set, but by progress and attainment.
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If you are going to err, err on the side of mercy.
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Suffering can make saints of people as they learn patience, long-suffering and self-mastery.
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Humility is the beginning virtue of all exaltation.
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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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