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• Impoverished is the life fenced in with few friends

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  Friendship, Few Friends

  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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• Brethren, 225,000 of you are here tonight. I suppose 225,000 of you may become gods. There seems to be plenty of space out there in the universe. And the Lord has proved that he knows how to do it. I think he could make, or probably have us help make, worlds for all of us, for every one of us 225,000.

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  Thinking, Space, Tonight

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• Sin is the result of deep and unmet needs.

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  Needs, Unmet Needs, Sin

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• Love is like a flower, and like the body, it needs constant feeding...And with love, also, cannot be expected to last forever unless it is continually fed with portions of love, the manifestation of esteem and admiration, the expressions of gratitude, and the consideration of unselfishness.

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  Gratitude, Flower, Love Is

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• Many good people, being influenced by the bold spirit of the times, are now seeking surgery for the wife or the husband so they may avoid pregnancies and comply with the strident voice demanding a reduction of children. It was never easy to bear and rear children, but easy things do not make for growth and development. But loud, blatant voices today shout 'fewer children' and offer the Pill, drugs, surgery, and even ugly abortion to accomplish that. Strange the proponents of depopulating the world seem never to have thought of continence!

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  Husband, Children, Pregnancy

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• People must be changed...goodness cannot be legislated.

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  Honesty, People, Goodness

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• I ask you, what good is a big picture window and the lavish appointments and a priceless decor in a home if there is no mother there?

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  Mother, Home, Priceless

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• The difficulties and hazards of marriage are greatly increased where backgrounds are different

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  Marriage, Different, Hazards

  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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• Each of us has more opportunities to do good and to be good than we ever use.

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  Opportunity, Use, Be Good

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• Every divorce is the result of selfishness on the part of one or both parties to a marriage contract.

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  Party, Divorce, Selfishness

  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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• Marriage is perhaps the most vital of all the decisions and has the most far-reaching effects...It affects not only the two people involved, but also their families and particularly their children and their children's children down through the many generations

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  Marriage, Children, Two

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• Just think of the possibilities, the potential. Every little boy that has just been born becomes an heir to this glorious, glorious program. When he is grown, he meets a lovely woman; they are married in the holy temple. They live all the commandments of the Lord. They keep themselves clean. And then they become sons of God, and they go forward with their great program-they go beyond the angels, beyond the angels and the gods that are waiting there. They go to their exaltation.

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  Angel, Son, Boys

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• O timid one, awaken, exert yourself, draw back the curtains your training and background have hung over the windows of your soul.

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  Soul, Training, Window

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• I personally regard all of the houses of the Lord as the work of Jehovah, initiated by him, built by him, designed by him, and dedicated to him and his program.

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  House, Jehovah, Lord

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• I believe in goals, but I believe that the individual should set his own. Goal setting should cause us to stretch as we make our way.

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  Happy, New Year, Believe

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• Now we ask you to clean up your homes we urge each of you to dress and keep in a beautiful state the property that is in your hands.

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  Beautiful, Home, Hands

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• Peace, sweet peace finally comes to men when they humbly yield to the gentle pressure of the Spirit.

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  Sweet, Men, Yield

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• Man is naturally a religious being. His heart instinctively seeks for God whether he reverences the sacred cow or prays to the sun or moon; whether he kneels before wood and stone images, or prays in secret to his Heavenly Father, he is satisfying an inborn urge.

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  Religious, Father, Heart

  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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• Mothers, are you so busy with social life, [with projects], with clubs, with working out of the home, or with housework, that you have not time to sit down and talk to your little girls and tell them the things they should know when they are nine, and ten, and eleven, and older? Can you be frank and loving to them so that they in turn can be frank in giving you their confidences?

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  Girl, Mother, Home

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• Learn all you can. Growth comes from setting your goals high and reaching for the stars.

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  Education, Stars, Goal

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• We can make our houses homes and our homes heavens.

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  Home, House, Heaven

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• They who reach down into the depths of life where, in the stillness, the voice of God is heard, have the stabilizing power which carries them poised and serene through the hurricane of difficulties.

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  Voice, Depth, Hurricanes

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• When a defiled man is born again, his habits are changed, his thoughts cleansed, his attitudes regenerated and elevated, his activities put in total order, and everything about him that was dirty, degenerate or reprobate is washed and made clean.

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  Attitude, Dirty, Men

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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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  Uplifting, Daughter, Mother

  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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• 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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  Jesus, Healing, Sick

  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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