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Think Great: Be Great!

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“I want you to see persecution and opposition and slander and misunderstanding and disappointment and self-recrimination and weakness and danger as the normal portion of faithful pastoral ministry.”

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“When we live in an environment filled with honest love, we are much freer to give more of our effort to other aspects of the work [of God]. I doubt there can be happy life without love, and the more honest the love, the more fulfilling the life. I wonder if this isn't the basis of the Savior's statement, "I am come that they might have life, that they might have it more abundantly." Isn't He the embodiment of love, and isn't it His greatest desire that all of us be full of love for one another?”

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