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To be sure your life will be full and abundant, you must plan your life.

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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Life
Abundant
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Preparedness, when properly pursued, is a way of life, not a sudden, spectacular program.
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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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There isn't anything else more important than taking the gospel to the world.
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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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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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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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Modern idols or false gods can take such forms as clothes, homes, businesses, machines, automobiles, pleasure boats, and numerous other material deflectors.
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