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Humility is the beginning virtue of all exaltation.

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
Humility
Beginning
Virtue
Exaltation

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To be a righteous woman during the winding up scenes on this earth, before the second coming of our Savior, is an especially noble calling... She has been placed here to help to enrich, to protect, and to guard the home--which is society's basic and most noble institution.
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Do not pray to marry the one that you love, but to love the one that you marry.
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Racial prejudice is of ignorance. There is no place for it.
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Profanity is the effort of a feeble brain to express itself forcibly.
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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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Learn all you can. Growth comes from setting your goals high and reaching for the stars.
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It is in the doing that the real blessing comes. Do it! That's our motto.
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Your faith will perform miracles, especially when you get your hands and feet involved.
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Peace of mind, joy and happiness cannot be purchased with money or worldly goods.
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Man must live, not only exist he must do, not merely be he must grow, not just vegetate.
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It is through repentance that the Lord Jesus Christ can work his healing miracle, infusing us with strength when we are weak, health when we are sick, hope when we are downhearted, love when we feel empty, and understanding when we search for truth.
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Dream beautiful dreams and then work to make those dreams come true.
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To be a mother is a woman's greatest vocation in life. She is a partner with God. No being has a position of such power and influence. She holds in her hands the destiny of nations, for to her comes the responsibility and opportunity of molding the nation's citizens.
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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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My life is like my shoes, worn out by service.
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We are not measured by the trials we meet -- only by those we overcome.
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Marriage is perhaps the most vital of all the decisions and has the most far reaching effects.
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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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You women are daughters of God. You are precious. You are made in the image of our Heavenly Mother.
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It frequently happens that offenses are committed when the offender is not aware of it. Something he has said or done is misconstrued or misunderstood. The offended one treasures in his heart the offense, adding to it such other things as might give fuel to the fire and justify his conclusions.
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