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" From an eternal perspective, the only death that is truly premature is the death of one who is not prepared to meet God. "

Russell M. Nelson

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" Even the best teams can fail. Celebrities can fade. There is only One in whom your faith is always safe, and that is in the Lord Jesus Christ. And you need to let your faith show! "

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" In one thousand years of Russia's existence, its first popular national election ever to be held occurred in June 1991. Six days later, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir performed in Moscow! "

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" Your life will be a blessed and balanced experience if you first honor your identity and priority. "

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" Sometimes a nickname is used instead of the real name. But a nickname may offend either the one named or the parents who gave the name. "

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" A saint serves others, knowing that the more one serves, the greater the opportunity for the Spirit to sanctify and purify. "

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" We are all pleased when our names are pronounced and spelled correctly. "

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" When we speak of faith - the faith that can move mountains - we are not speaking of faith in general but of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. "

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" We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven. "

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" Many shoulder heavy burdens of righteous responsibility which, on occasion, seem so difficult to bear. I have heard those challenges termed impossible. "

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" Every religious group, while perhaps a majority somewhere, is also inevitably a minority somewhere else. Thus, religious organizations should and do show tolerance toward members of other religious denominations. "

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" All leaders in the Lord's Church are called by proper authority. No prophet or any other leader in this Church, for that matter, has ever called himself or herself. No prophet has ever been elected. "

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" Missionaries serve to make life better for God's children. "

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" The wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity. "

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" A faithful woman can become a devoted daughter of God - more concerned with being righteous than with being selfish, more anxious to exercise compassion than to exercise dominion, more committed to integrity than to notoriety. And she knows of her own infinite worth. "

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" If one accepts the terms of the covenant and obeys God's law, he or she receives the blessings associated with the covenant. "

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" We need women who are devoted to shepherding God's children along the covenant path toward exaltation; women who know how to receive personal revelation, who understand the power and peace of the temple endowment; women who know how to call upon the powers of heaven to protect and strengthen children and families; women who teach fearlessly. "

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" As apostles and prophets, we are concerned not only for our children and grandchildren but for yours as well - and for each of God's children. "

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