Russell M. Nelson Quotes

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Russell M. Nelson

Profession : Clergyman

Birth : September 9, 1924

Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?

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

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Many institutions of higher learning will grant an 18- to 30-month deferral to prospective missionaries. This will enable you elders and sisters to serve without worrying about where you will begin your advanced education. We are very grateful to leaders of educational institutions who are making such planning possible!

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Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

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We make the Sabbath a delight when we teach the gospel to our children.

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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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A saint is tolerant and is attentive to the pleadings of other human beings, not only to spoken messages but to unspoken messages as well.

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In legal language, a covenant generally denotes an agreement between two or more parties. But in a religious context, a covenant is much more significant. It is a sacred promise with God. He fixes the terms.

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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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Generally, the younger the victim, the greater the grief. Yet even when the elderly or infirm have been afforded merciful relief, their loved ones are rarely ready to let go.

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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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Contemplation of life after retirement and life after death can help you deal with contemporary challenges.

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Many religious confessions share common values. They teach that we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us.

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Men and women may form associations for and among themselves and be governed by stipulations that are mutually acceptable.

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Surely wisdom will come as we listen to learn from children, parents, partners, neighbors, Church leaders, and the Lord.

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Members of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir are not superhuman. They are ordinary people with ordinary frailties. But therein lies the power of their example.

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

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Prior to my call to the Twelve, I served as a medical doctor and surgeon.

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We should understand the source of our authority and something of the keys that control its power.

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