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The nation is built upon the foundation of its homes and the home upon its families.

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
Upon
Home
Homes
Families
Foundation
Built
Nation
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Humility is the beginning virtue of all exaltation.
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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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If I immerse myself in the scriptures...I find myself loving more intensely those whom I must love with all my heart and mind and strength, and loving them more. I find it easier to abide their counsel.
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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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Time cannot be recycled. When a moment has gone, it is really gone. Wise time management is really wise management of ourselves.
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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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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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We must remember that those mortals we meet in parking lots, offices, elevators, and elsewhere are that portion of mankind God has given us to love and to serve. It will do us little good to speak of the general brotherhood of mankind if we cannot regard those who are all around us as our brothers and sisters.
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Profanity is the effort of a feeble brain to express itself forcibly.
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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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We are greatly conscious of the fact that among the Lamanites - as well as among all peoples of other countries - we have a responsibility to see that the gospel touches their hearts and minds and that they understand it.
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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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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 true marriage there must be a union of minds as well as of hearts. Emotions must not wholly determine decisions, but the mind and the heart, strengthened by fasting and prayer and serious consideration, will give one a maximum chance of marital happiness.
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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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My life is like my shoes, worn out by service.
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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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Every divorce is the result of selfishness on the part of one or both parties to a marriage contract.
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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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