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A thought from the scriptures

Published: Saturday, Feb. 24, 2001

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Therefore I would that ye should be perfect even as I, or your Father who is in heaven is perfect.

— 3 Nephi 12:48

"Perfection is an eternal goal," said President James E. Faust of the First Presidency during the April 1999 general conference. "While we cannot be perfect in mortality, striving for it is a commandment, which ultimately, through the Atonement, we can keep."