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My life is like my shoes, worn out by service.

Spencer W. Kimball

Shoes, Life Is Like, Worn

Edward L. Kimball, Spencer W. Kimball (2005). “Lengthen Your Stride: The Presidency of Spencer W. Kimball”, Deseret Book Company

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He who cannot learn by others' mistakes is stupid. He who cannot learn by his own errors is a fool.

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Mistake, Stupid, Errors

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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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Wise, Time, Gone

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A mission is not just a casual thing-it is not an alternative program in the Church. Neither is a mission a matter of choice any more than tithing is a choice, any more than sacrament meeting is a choice, any more than the Word of Wisdom is a choice. Of course, we have our free agency, and the Lord has given us choices. We can do as we please. We can go on a mission or we can remain home. But every normal young man is as much obligated to go on a mission as he is to pay his tithing, attend his meetings, keep the Sabbath day holy, and keep his life spotless and clean.

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Home, Men, Agency

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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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Home, Noble, Calling

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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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Pain, Adversity, Doors

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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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Procrastination, Responsibility, Age

Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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Too often we take blessings for granted, like the sun, the air, health, and opportunity. Or we accept favors, honors, and privileges day after day as did the lepers their newfound health, without a word of thanks. We would thank the person who gives us a seat in the bus, the person who offers a ride, the friend who picks up the check after dinner, the person who does the baby-sitting, or the boy who cuts our lawn, but do we express gratitude to Him who gives us all?

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Baby, Gratitude, Cutting

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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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Mom, Mother, Responsibility

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No father, no son, no mother, no daughter should get so busy that he or she does not have time to study the scriptures and the words of modern prophets. None of us should get so busy that we crowd out contemplation and praying. None of us should become so busy in our formal Church assignments that there is no room left for quiet Christian service to our neighbors.

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Christian, Mother, Daughter

Spencer W. Kimball (1981). “Priesthood”, Shadow Mountain

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The day obedience becomes a quest and not an irritation is the day you gain power.

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Irritation, Quests, Gains

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I say to everyone within the sound of my voice, 'Do not fail the Lord'. We must accept the truth that the gospel principles are not on trial but that we are.

Spencer W. Kimball

Voice, Sound, Principles

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The fact that some governments, churches and numerous corrupted individuals have tried to reduce such behavior from criminal offence to personal privilege dose not change the nature nor the seriousness of the practice. This woe is pronounced upon those who would pervert standards of mortality and decency. They seek man’s approval of that which God had condemned. They have been successful in getting legislation passed to make such perversion legal and acceptable by society.

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Successful, Men, Practice

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We make no apology then for raising our voices loud to a world that is ripening in sin the lord has said,” Say nothing but repentance unto this generation; The adversary is subtle, cunning, he knows that he cannot induce good men and women immediately to do major evils so he moves slyly, whispering half truths until he has his intended victims following him finally he clamps his chains upon them and fetters them tight, and then he laughs at their discomfiture and their misery.

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Moving, Apology, Men

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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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Attitude, Acquisition, World

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Humility is royalty without a crown.

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Humility, Crowns, Stay Humble

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Success is not measured in achievement of goals, but in the stress and strain of meeting those goals

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Stress, Goal, Achievement

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There are great challenges ahead of us, giant opportunities to be met. I welcome that exciting prospect and feel to say to the Lord, humbly, 'Give me this MOUNTAIN,' give me these challenges.

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Opportunity, Giving, Challenges

Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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Wherever you have a plot of land, however small, plant a garden. Staying close to the soil is good for the soul.

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Garden, Land, Soul

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I am convinced that each of us, at some time in our lives, must discover the scriptures for ourselves—and not just discover them once, but rediscover them again and again.

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Scripture, Again And Again, Our Lives

Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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Dream beautiful dreams and then work to make those dreams come true.

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Beautiful, Dream, Dreams Come True

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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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Father, Moving, Giving

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Sickness sometimes is a great blessing. People become angels through sickness.

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Adversity, Angel, Blessing

Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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Soul mates' are fiction and an illusion; and while every young man and young woman will seek with all diligence and prayerfulness to find a mate with whom life can be most compatible and beautiful, yet it is certain that almost any good man and any good woman can have happiness and a successful marriage if both are willing to pay the price.

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Marriage, Beautiful, Successful

Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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Make certain decisions only once . . . We can make a single decision about certain things that we will incorporate in our lives and then make them ours - without having to brood and re-decide a hundred times what it is we will do and what we will not do.

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Decision, Hundred, Certain

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Born: March 28, 1895
Died: November 5, 1985
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