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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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• I believe that God has opened up these treasures on intelligence to enhance His purposes on the earth.

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  Believe, Intelligence, Treasure

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• . . . Cultivating good humor may be helpful in finding our own identity. Young people who are trying to find out who they really are often have concerns as to their ability to meet and cope with the challenges that confront them and that lie ahead. They will find that it is easier to ride over the bumps and come quickly to their own identity if they cultivate the good humor that comes naturally. It is important that we all learn to laugh at ourselves.

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  Lying, People, Laughing

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• Just as order gave life and beauty to the earth when it was dark and void, so it does to us. Obedience helps us develop the full potential Heavenly Father desires for us in becoming celestial beings worthy some day to live in His presence.

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  Life, Father, Dark

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• None of us knows the wisdom of the Lord. We do not know in advance exactly how He would get us from where we are to where we need to be, but He does offer us broad outlines in our patriarchal blessings. We encounter many bumps, bends, and forks in the road of life that leads to the eternities.

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  Blessing, Lds, Encounters

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• Now, I think our prophet today is telling all of us, in this day and time, to go and bring in those people who are out on the plains. Each worthy young man should go on a mission. And each one of us, though we may not be called to active missionary service, can be on a mission and be involved in a cause that is greater than we are, the greatest cause of all in the world: the salvation of each of our Father's children.

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  Children, Father, Men

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• Into every life there come the painful, despairing days of adversity.

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  Adversity, Painful, Refiner's Fire

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• Another false philosophy that appeals to the Mr. Hyde side of our natures is that peeking into pornography is harmless. This is a terrible deception. Pornography is as addictive as cocaine or any illegal drug.

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  Philosophy, Addiction, Drug

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• Integrity is the light that shines from a disciplined conscience.

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  Integrity, Light, Discipline

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

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• I acknowledge with great gratitude the peace and contentment we can find for ourselves in the spiritual cocoons of our homes, our sacrament meetings, and our holy temples.

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  Spiritual, Gratitude, Home

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• You cannot become great women if you are not also good women. Great women respond generously to their instincts to do good.

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  Uplifting, Good Woman, Great Women

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• Our natural gifts and abilities are limited, but when augmented by inspiration and guidance of the Holy Ghost, our potential increases many fold.

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  Inspiration, Natural Gifts, Ghost

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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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• I hope we can all overcome any differences of culture, race, and language.

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  Race, Differences, Overcoming

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• What are we doing to keep the light shining in our own eyes and countenances; Much of that light comes from our discipline dedication and consecration.

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  Eye, Dedication, Light

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• I hope that each of you girls will become an individual of significant worth and a person of virtue so that your contributions are maintained in both human and eternal terms.

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  Girl, Virtue, Individual

  "A Message to My Granddaughters". James E. Faust's speech at the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah, www.lds.org. February 12, 1985.

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• The only way to acquire spiritual knowledge and keep It burning brightly is to be humble, prayerful, and to strive diligently to keep all of the commandments.

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  Spiritual, Humble, Burning

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• One of the advantages of having lived a long time is that you can often remember when you had it worse. I am grateful to have lived long enough to have known some of the blessings of adversity.

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  Life, Grateful, Adversity

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• Parents of handicapped children are occasionally embarrassed or hurt by others who awkwardly express sympathy but cannot know or appreciate the depth of the parents love for a handicapped child. Perhaps there is some comparison in the fact that there is no less love in families for the helpless infant who must be fed, bathed, and diapered than for the older but still dependent members. We love those we serve and who need us.

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  Hurt, Children, Inspiration

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

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• True disciples are those who go beyond simply believing. They act out their belief.

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  Believe, Belief, Disciple

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• If performed in the right spirit, there is no higher worship than the unpurchased service to another soul of whatever faith, belief, or social stratum. The Savior of the world said it simply, "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me" (Matt. 25:40).

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  Soul, Done, World

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• Obedience leads to true freedom. The more we obey revealed truth, the more we become liberated.

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  Obedience, True Freedom, Liberated

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• The dignity of self is greatly enhanced by looking upward in the search for holiness. Like the giant trees, we should reach up for the light. The most important source of light we can come to know is the gift of the Holy Ghost. It is the source of inner strength and peace.

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  Light, Self, Tree

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

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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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• Some, like Ebenezer Scrooge in Dickens's A Christmas Carol, have a hard time loving anyone, even themselves, because of their selfishness. Love seeks to give rather than to get. Charity towards and compassion for others is a way to overcome too much self-love

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  Compassion, Hard Times, Self

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