James E. Faust Quotes

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• There is no greater good in all the world than motherhood. The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.

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  Life, Mothers Day, Mom

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• But whatever the era, whatever the times, one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first. You must read to your children and you must hug your children and you must love your children. Your success as a family, our success as a society, depends not on what happens in the White House but on what happens inside your house

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  Mother, Children, Father

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• A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being.

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  Prayer, Grateful, Heart

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• In this life we have to make many choices. Some are very important choices. Some are not. Many of our choices are between good and evil. The choices we make, however, determine to a large extent our happiness or our unhappiness, because we have to live with the consequences of our choices. Making perfect choices all of the time is not possible. It just doesn't happen. But it is possible to make good choices we can live with and grow from.

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  Life, Happiness, Struggle Between Good And Evil

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• Your criticism may be worse than the conduct you are trying to correct.

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  Criticism, Trying, May

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• Faith is the power, obedience is the price, love is the motive, the Spirit is the key and Christ is the reason.

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  Love, Faith, Keys

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• One of the main problems in families today is that we spend less and less time together.... Time together is precious time-time needed to talk, to listen, to encourage, and to show how to do things.

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  Together, Today, Problem

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• Here then is a great #‎ truth . In the #‎ pain , the #‎ agony , and the #‎ heroic endeavors of life, we pass through a #‎ refiner 's #‎ fire , and the insignificant and the unimportant in our lives can melt away like dross and make our #‎ faith #‎ bright , #‎ intact , and #‎ strong .

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  Strong, Pain, Adversity

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• The thankful heart opens our eyes to a multitude of blessings that continually surround us

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  Gratitude, Heart, Eye

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• Some of our important choices have a time line. If we delay a decision, the opportunity is gone forever. Sometimes our doubts keep us from making a choice that involves change. Thus an opportunity may be missed.

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  Opportunity, Important Choices, Decision

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• Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.

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  Truth, Honesty, Integrity

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• Private choices are not private; they all have public consequences...Our society is the sum total of what millions of individuals do in their private lives. That sum total of private behavior has worldwide public consequences of enormous magnitude. There are no completely private choices.

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  Choices, Our Society, Behavior

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• Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years wrinkle the skin, but giving up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, doubt, self-distrust, fear and despair - these are the long years that bow the head and turn the growing spirit back to dust. You are as young as your faith and as old as your doubts; as young as you self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.

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  Giving Up, Self Confidence, Numbers

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• Adversity is the refiner's fire that bends iron but tempers steel.

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  Adversity, Fire, Iron

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• A husband should always try to treat his wife with the greatest courtesy and respect, holding her in the highest esteem. He should speak to her in a kind and a soft manner, showing his love by word and deed. As she feels this love and tenderness she will mirror it and return it tenfold.

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  Marriage, Husband, Mirrors

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• If we can find forgiveness in our hearts for those who have caused us hurt and injury, we will rise to a higher level of self-esteem and well-being. Some recent studies show that people who are taught to forgive become 'less angry, more hopeful, less depressed, less anxious and less stressed,' which leads to greater physical well-being. Another of these studies concludes 'that forgiveness ... is a liberating gift [that] people can give to themselves.'

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  Hurt, Self Esteem, Heart

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• Don't take too much council from your fears.

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  Too Much, Council

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• If you take each challenge one step at a time, with faith in every footstep, your strength and understanding will increase.

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  Inspirational, Understanding, Challenges

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• Integrity is the value we set on ourselves. It is a fulfillment of the duty we owe ourselves. An honorable man or woman will personally commit to live up to certain self-imposed expectations. They need no outside check or control. They are honorable in their inner core.

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  Integrity, Men, Self

  James E. Faust (1990). “Reach Up for the Light”, Salt Lake City, Utah : Deseret Book Company

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• This Christmas and every Christmas will be richer by sharing and enjoying gifts that cannot be held but only felt.

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  Enjoy, Felt

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• I have now lived long enough to know that, whatever our situation, our troubles melt and disappear like frost in the morning sun when we dwell upon our blessings rather than our disappointments. No matter how pessimistic one's view may become of the times and the seasons, we can always fall back on special friendship, on faithful, personal love, and on simple, true dealings in our own personal lives.

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  Morning, Disappointment, Fall

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• We should not allow our personal values to erode, even if others think we are peculiar.

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  Thinking, Peculiar, Erode

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• What is discipleship? It is primarily obedience to the Savior. Discipleship includes many things. It is chastity. It is tithing. It is family home evening. It is keeping all the commandments. It is forsaking anything that is not good for us. Everything in life has a price. Considering the Savior's great promise for peace in this life and eternal life in the life to come, discipleship is a price worth paying. It is a price we cannot afford not to pay. By measure, the requirements of discipleship are much, much less than the promised blessings.

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  Home, Blessing, Promise

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• There is a divine purpose in the adversities we encounter every day. They prepare, they purge, the purify, and thus they bless.

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  Adversity, Encounters, Purpose

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• Believing requires action.

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  Faith, Believe, Belief

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