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" Encourage your children to read more and watch television less. "

Gordon B. Hinckley

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" With all my heart, I plead with the Latter-day Saints to live honestly with the Lord in the payment of tithes and offerings. I plead with youth to establish this habit while you are still young and to resolve to continue with it all the days of your lives. "

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" I've tried to recognize my wife's individuality, her personality, her desires, her background, her ambitions. "

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" Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women. "

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" I think the world would be much poorer without religion, speaking generally. "

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" A tattoo is graffiti on the temple of the body. "

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" Truth will prevail. "

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" You dear women, I say thanks to you. Thank you for being the kind of people you are and doing the things you do. "

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" The problem is, I think, that so many of us pray as if we are ordering groceries. We pick up the telephone and say, 'Is this the right place to place my order?' and we proceed right to dictating our order. When we have then ended that list, we hang up. "

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" Anything so precious as the gospel of Jesus Christ is worthy of all the effort and sacrifice of time and means employed to teach it. "

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" Dishonesty of any kind will create a blemish. "

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" I am satisfied that every man or woman who goes to the temple in a spirit of sincerity and faith leaves the house of the Lord a better man or woman. "

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" Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations. "

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" We are all prone to be a little selfish, a little lazy. "

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" I do not fear truth. I welcome it. But I wish all of my facts to be in their proper context. "

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" There is dissatisfaction among a great many Christian people. They are not happy with what they have and, therefore, respond readily to the message of the restored gospel. "

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" Keep your families close together, and love and honor your children. "

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" Study a foreign language if you have opportunity to do so. You may never be called to a land where that language is spoken, but the study will have given you a better understanding of your own tongue or of another tongue you may be asked to acquire. "

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" I hope that if you are employed full-time, you are doing it to ensure that basic needs are met and not simply to indulge a taste for an elaborate home, fancy cars, and other luxuries. "

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" God gave us our agency. He taught us a way. He showed us what to do. But he gave us our agency and left us free to act as we choose to do. "

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" Eligibility for a temple recommend is not based on financial worth. That has nothing whatever to do with it. It is based on consistent personal behavior, on the goodness of one's life. It is not concerned with money matters, but rather with things of eternity. "

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" To you wives who are constantly complaining and see only the dark side of life, and feel that you are unloved and unwanted, look into your own hearts and minds. If there is something wrong, turn about. Put a smile on your faces. Make yourselves more attractive. Brighten your outlook. "

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" Some of you, unfortunately, will never marry in this life. That turns out to be the case sometimes. If that happens, do not spend your life grieving over it. The world still needs your talents. It needs your contribution. "

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" People seem to be looking for discipline in a topsy-turvy world. "

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" I submit that in the few minutes that Joseph Smith was with the Father and the Son, he learned more of the nature of God the Eternal Father and the risen Lord than all the learned minds in all their discussions through all centuries of time. "

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" Today is a part of eternity. "

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" How grateful I am for the law of tithing. It is the Lord's law of finance. "

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" I promise you that the time will come, if you have tattoos, that you will regret your actions. They cannot be washed off. They are permanent. Only by an expensive and painful process can they be removed. If you are tattooed, then probably for the remainder of your life you will carry it with you. "

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