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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
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Salt Lake City
Utah
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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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Learn all you can. Growth comes from setting your goals high and reaching for the stars.
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The essence of the miracle of forgiveness is that it brings peace to the previously anxious, restless, frustrated, perhaps tormented soul.
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What are we to fear when the Lord is with us? Can we not take the Lord at his word and exercise a particle of faith in him?
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One of the most serious human defects in all ages is procrastination, an unwillingness to accept personal responsibilities now.
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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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Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and comfort, but if we were to close the doors upon sorrow and distress, we might be excluding our greatest friends and benefactors. Suffering can make saints of people as they learn patience, long-suffering, and self-mastery.
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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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Your faith will perform miracles, especially when you get your hands and feet involved.
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