Top 38 Howard W. Hunter Quotes
#1. The real spirit of Christmas lies in the life and mission of the Master.
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#2. You are chosen to be faithful women of God in our day, to stand above pettiness, gossip, selfishness, lewdness, and all other forms of ungodliness. Recognize your divine birthright as daughters of our Heavenly Father.
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#4. If our lives and our faith are centered on Jesus Christ and his restored gospel, nothing can ever go permanently wrong. On the other hand, if our lives are not centered on the Savior and his teachings, no other success can ever be permanently right.
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#5. The girl who chooses to be modest, chooses to be respected.
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#6. The temple is a place of beauty, it is a place of revelation, it is a place of peace. It is the house of the Lord. It is holy unto the Lord. It should be holy unto us.
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#7. At such times when we feel the floods are threatening to drown us and the deep is going to swallow up the tossed vessel of our faith, I pray we may always hear amid the storm and the darkness that sweet utterance of the Savior of the world: 'Be of good cheer: it is I; be not afraid' (Matt. 14:27)
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#8. Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind.
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#9. What a glorious thing is life, surrounded by the beauties of the world in which we live.
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#10. To discipline ourselves through fasting brings us in tune with God, and fast day provides an occasion to set aside the temporal so that we might enjoy the higher qualities of the spiritual. As we fast on that day we learn and better understand the needs of those who are less fortunate.
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#11. Why do we serve? When we understand why, we won't be concerned about where we serve.
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#13. When we ... read and study the scriptures, benefits and blessings of many kinds come to us. This is the most profitable of all study in which we could engage.
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#14. Faith is the element that builds the bridge in the absence of concrete evidence.
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#15. How sacredly do [we] regard the good name of another? ... Do we pass on spicy bits of entertaining conversation ... repeating rumors and stories which have not been submitted to the test of truth?
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#16. There is a great need to rally the women of the Church to stand with and for the Brethren in stemming the tide of evil that surrounds us.
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#17. At the end of your lives you will not be judged by academic successes, the degrees or diplomas earned, the positions held, the material wealth acquired, or power and prestige, but rather on the basis of what you have become as persons and what you are in conduct and character.
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#18. God's chief way of acting is by persuasion and patience and long-suffering, not by coercion and stark confrontation. He acts by gentle solicitation and by sweet enticement. He always acts with unfailing respect for the freedom and independence that we possess.
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#19. If you feel that ... what you do this year or in the years to come does not make you very famous, take heart. Most of the best people who ever lived weren't very famous either.
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#20. Being happily and successfully married is generally not so much a matter of marrying the right person as it is being the right person.
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#21. Tenderness and respect-never selfishness-must be the guiding principles in the intimate relationship between husband and wife
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#22. True greatness ... always requires regular, consistent, small, and sometimes ordinary and mundane steps over a long period of time.
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#23. Whatever Jesus lays His hands upon, lives. If He lays is hands upon a marriage, it lives. If He is allowed to lay His hands on the family, it lives.
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#24. It is the deepest desire of my heart to have every member of the Church worthy to enter the temple.
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#25. A righteous father protects his children with his time and presence.
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#26. Earn the respect and confidence of your children through your loving relationship with them. A righteous father protects his children with his time and presence in their social, educational, and spiritual activities and responsibilities.
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#27. Let us truly be a temple-attending and a temple-loving people ... .Let us make the temple, with temple worship and temple covenants and temple marriage, our ultimate earthly goal and the supreme mortal experience.
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#28. Surely taking the gospel to every kindred, tongue, and people is the single greatest responsibility we have in mortality ... We have been privileged to be born in these last days, as opposed to some earlier dispensation, to help take the gospel to all the earth
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#29. Perhaps no promise in life is more reassuring than that promise of divine assistance and spiritual guidance in times of need. It is a gift freely given from heaven, a gift that we need from our earliest youth through the very latest days of our lives.
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#30. The path of repentance, though hard at times, lifts one ever upward and leads to a perfect forgiveness.
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#31. What a glorious thing it is for us to have the privilege of going to the temple for our own blessings. Then after going to the temple for our own blessings, what a glorious privilege to do the work for those who have gone on before us.
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#32. While waiting for promised blessings, one should not mark time, for to fail to move forward is to some degree a retrogression. Be anxiously engaged in good causes, including your own development.
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#33. I have learned that those who engage in family history research and then perform the temple ordinance work for those whose names they have found will know the additional joy of receiving both halves of the blessing.
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#34. The gospel of Jesus Christ is not limited to a system of beliefs; it is a plan of action.
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#36. If faith is the first step or principle of the gospel and is eliminated, what happens to the gospel plan? The very foundation will crumble. I submit that there is a divine reason why all things cannot be proven by concrete evidence. ("Faith - The First Step," Ensign, May 1975, 37)
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#37. Surely the Lord loves, more than anything else, an unwavering determination to obey his counsel.
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#38. Tender expressions of love and affection toward children are as much the responsibility of the father as the mother. Tell your children you love them.
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