James E. Faust Quotes

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

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  Criticism, Trying, May

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• The Lord has a great work for each of us to do. You may wonder how this can be. You may feel that there is nothing special or superior about you or your ability. ... The Lord can do remarkable miracles with a person of ordinary ability who is humble, faithful, and diligent in serving the Lord and seeks to improve himself. This is because God is the ultimate source of power.

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  Humble, Miracle, Faithful

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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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• As we look into the future, we are going to need to be stronger and more responsible for our choices in a world where people "call evil good, and good evil." We do not choose wisely if we use our agency in opposition to God's will or to priesthood counsel. Tomorrow's blessings and opportunities depend on the choices we make today.

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  Blessing, Opportunity, Agency

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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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• 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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• 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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• At the heart of the message of the Savior of the world is a single, glorious, wonderful, still largely untried concept. In its simplest terms the message is that we should seek to overcome the selfishness we all seem to be born with, that we should overcome human nature and think of others before self.

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  Heart, Thinking, Self

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

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  Too Much, Council

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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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• 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 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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• Almost every day brings opportunities to perform unselfish acts for others. Such acts are unlimited and can be as simple as a kind word, a helping hand, or a gracious smile.

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  Opportunity, Simple, Hands

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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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• 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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• May we all be faithful in doing the day-to-day, ordinary things that prove our worthiness, for they will lead us to and qualify us for great things.

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  Faithful, Ordinary, May

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• In the heroic effort of the handcart pioneers, we learn a great truth. All must pass through a refiner’s fire, and the insignificant and unimportant in our lives can melt away like dross and make our faith bright, intact, and strong. There seems to be a full measure of anguish, sorrow, and often heartbreak for everyone, including those who earnestly seek to do right and be faithful. Yet this is part of the purging to become acquainted with God.

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  Strong, Fire, Lds

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