James E. Faust Quotes - Page 4

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• You cannot convert people beyond your own conversion.

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  People, Conversion

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• As children of the Lord we should strive every day to rise to a higher level of personal righteousness in all of our actions.

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  Children, Levels, Our Actions

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• Happiness in marriage and parenthood can exceed a thousand times any other happiness

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  Marriage, Others Happiness, Parenthood

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• The Lord has directed, Bring up your children in light and truth. To me, there is no more important human effort. Being a father or a mother is not only a great challenge; it is a divine calling. It is an effort requiring consecration. President David O. McKay (1873-1970) stated that being parents is the greatest trust that has been given to human beings.

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  Mother, Children, Father

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• The Holy Ghost is the greatest guarantor of inward peace in our unstable world.

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  Inward, World, Ghost

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

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• The counsel to have a year's supply of basic food, clothing, and commodities was given fifty years ago and has been repeated many times since. Every father and mother are the family's store keepers. They should store whatever their own family would like to have in the case of an emergency...store a year's supply...that might keep us form starving in case of emergency.

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  Mother, Religious, Father

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• The saving principles and doctrines of the Church are established, fixed, and unchangeable.

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  Church, Principles, Doctrine

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• May we dedicate our lives to serving the Lord and not worry about offending the devil.

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  Offending, Worry, Devil

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• Satan had two conditions [to his plan]: the first was the denial of agency, and the second, that he would have the honor. In other words, something had to be in it for him. And thus he became the father of lies and selfishness. Taking up one's cross and following the Savior means overcoming selfishness; it is a commitment to serve others. Selfishness is one of the baser human traits, which must be subdued and overcome. We torture our souls when we focus on getting rather than giving.

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  Selfish, Lying, Father

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• You want to make your own decisions, but you ought to make those decisions with an eternal perspective.

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  Perspective, Decision, Want

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• I urge the husbands and fathers of this church to be the kind of a man your wife would not want to be without.

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  Husband, Father, Men

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• We learn about tithing by paying it.

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  Learning, Tithing

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• What are most people hungry for? I believe it is spiritual and moral leadership. Increases in technology, scientific inventions, and medical miracles have been marvelous and incredible. But we must use them properly to bring us joy, and that requires spiritual and moral leadership.

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  Spiritual, Believe, Technology

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• Meetings don't have to be endless to be eternal.

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  Endless, Meetings, Eternal

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• There is a wise old saying 'Eat it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without'. Thrift is a practice of not wasting anything. Some people are able to get by because of the absence of expense. They have their shoes resoled, they patch, they mend, they sew, and they save money. They avoid installment buying, and make purchases only after saving enough to pay cash, thus avoiding interest charges. Frugality means to practice careful economy.

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  Wise, Mean, Practice

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• Many years spent listening to the tribulations of man have persuaded me that the satisfaction of all desires is completely counterproductive to happiness. Instant and unrestrained gratification is the shortest and most direct route to unhappiness.

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  Men, Years, Listening

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• Leaders receive and give assignments. This is an important part of the necessary principle of delegating. No one appreciates a willing volunteer more than I, but the total work cannot be done as the Lord wants it done merely by those doing the work who may be present at meetings.

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  Volunteer, Appreciate, Giving

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• As a young man, I lived through the Great Depression, when banks failed and so many lost their jobs and homes and went hungry. I was fortunate to have a job at a canning factory that paid 25 cents an hour.

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  Jobs, Home, Men

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• A rebirth out of spiritual adversity causes us to become new creatures.

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  Spiritual, Adversity, Causes

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• Most of us cannot afford to store a year's supply of luxury items, but find it more practical to store staples that might keep us from starving in case of emergency.

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  Years, Luxury, Might

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• A conviction that you are a daughter of God gives you a feeling of comfort in your self-worth. It means that you can find strength in the balm of Christ. It will help you meet the heartaches and challenges with faith and serenity. ... A woman can and must have an identity and feel useful, valued, and needed whether she is single or married. She must feel that she can do something for someone else that no one else ever born can do

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  Daughter, Heart, Mean

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• You must have the strength to discipline yourselves so that you can accomplish your goals and enhance your natural strengths. Habits of self-discipline formed while you are young will become part of the makeup of your character for the rest of your lives.

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  Character, Makeup, Self

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• In order to do well, missionary work has to be totally positive.

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  Order, Missionary, Wells

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• We must at times search our own souls and discover what we really are. Our real character, much as we would wish, cannot be hidden.

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  Real, Character, Soul

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• My dear young friends, I speak to you as one who stands on the edge of eternity. From that perspective, I see you as the choicest spirits ever placed on the earth. The promises in your generation's patriarchal blessings, if you are faithful, seem to exceed the promises in Sister Faust's blessing and in mine. ...I want you to know that I believe in you. I believe you can be in the world but not of the world.

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  Believe, Blessing, Our Generation

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