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Each of us has much for which to be grateful if we will but pause and contemplate our blessings.
Thomas S. Monson
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Thomas S. Monson
Age: 90 †
Born: 1927
Born: August 21
Died: 2018
Died: January 2
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Utah
Thomas Spencer Monson
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Our opportunities to give of ourselves are indeed limitless, but they are also perishable.
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Difficulties allow us to change for the better.
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Children learn through gentle direction and persuasive teaching.
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I think there is no place in the world where I feel closer to the Lord than in one of His holy temples.
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Each of our temples is an expression of our testimony that life beyond the grave is as real and as certain as is our life here on earth.
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When we qualify for the help of the Lord, we can build boys, we can mend men, we can accomplish miracles in His holy service. Our opportunities are without limit.
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How much better the world would be if we all gave gifts of understanding, and compassion, of service, and friendship, of kindness and gentleness.
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A prominent judge was asked what we, as citizens of the countries of the world, could do to reduce crime and disobedience to law and to bring peace and contentment into our lives and into our nations. He thoughtfully replied, ‘I would suggest a return to the old-fashioned practice of family prayer.’
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Our thinking will automatically improve when we remember the words of Paul: 'know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and the spirit of God dwelleth in you?
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When we treat people merely as they are, they will remain as they are. When we treat them as if they were what they should be, they will become what they should be.
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Our challenge is to join forces of the old and the new- experience and experiment, history and destiny, the world of man and the new world of science- but always in accordance with the never-changing word of God.
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No temptation, no pressure, no enticing can overcome us unless we allow such. If we make the wrong choice, we have no one to blame but ourselves.
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Any excuse, no matter how valid, only weakens the character.
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On occasion we need to make a second effort - and a third effort, and a fourth effort, and as many degrees of effort as may be required to accomplish what we strive to achieve.
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