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We are, on the whole, an idolatrous people...
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
Idolatrous
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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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Learn all you can. Growth comes from setting your goals high and reaching for the stars.
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There is never a day in any mans life when repentance is not essential to his well being in eternal progress.
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We learn to do by doing.
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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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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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You women are daughters of God. You are precious. You are made in the image of our Heavenly Mother.
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I am comforted by the assurance that there will be beautiful music in heaven, and for that I am most grateful.
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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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The best way to resist temptation is to avoid it. Prevention is far, far better than repentance.
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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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Humility is the beginning virtue of all exaltation.
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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.
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I personally regard all of the houses of the Lord as the work of Jehovah, initiated by him, built by him, designed by him, and dedicated to him and his program.
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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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I am not afraid of death. What I am afraid of is that I will meet the Saviour and He will say, 'You could have done better'
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It is not easy to be at peace in today’s troubled world. Necessarily peace is a personal acquisition. … It can be attained only through maintaining constantly a repentant attitude, seeking forgiveness of sins both large and small, and thus coming ever closer to God.
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There is nothing unholy or degrading about sexuality in itself, for by that means men and women join in a process of creation and in an expression of love
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Sickness sometimes is a great blessing. People become angels through sickness.
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They who reach down into the depths of life where, in the stillness, the voice of God is heard, have the stabilizing power which carries them poised and serene through the hurricane of difficulties.
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