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We are, on the whole, an idolatrous people...

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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
Idolatrous
Idols
Whole
People

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The more we are guided by eternal considerations in our conduct, the better we will manage our mortality.
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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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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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Jesus perfected his life and became our Christ. Priceless blood of a god was shed, and he became our Savior his perfected life was given, and he became our Redeemer his atonement for us made possible our return to our Heavenly Father, and yet how thoughtless, how unappreciative are most beneficiaries! Ingratitude is a sin of the ages.
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The day obedience becomes a quest and not an irritation is the day you gain power.
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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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You women are daughters of God. You are precious. You are made in the image of our Heavenly Mother.
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The only way we can keep our freedom is to work at it. Not some of us. All of us. Not some of the time, but all of the time. So if you value your citizenship and you want to keep it for yourself and your children and their children, give it your faith, your belief, and give it your active support in civic affairs.
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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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If you are going to err, err on the side of mercy.
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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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Peace, sweet peace finally comes to men when they humbly yield to the gentle pressure of the Spirit.
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Young men do not usually become inactive in the Church because they are given too many significant things to do.
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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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Destroy the seed and the plant will never grow. Man alone, of all creatures of earth, can change his thought pattern and become the architect of his destiny.
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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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Suffering can make saints of people as they learn patience, long-suffering and self-mastery.
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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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Dream beautiful dreams and then work to make those dreams come true.
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There isn't anything else more important than taking the gospel to the world.
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