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A thought from the scriptures

Published: Saturday, April 23, 2011

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To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. — Ecclesiastes 3:1

"Build friendships," said President Gordon B. Hinckley during an address at Brigham Young University on Sept. 9, 2003. "You have the greatest opportunity of your lives to establish wonderful associations with people of your own kind who think as you do. And hopefully for each of you there will come romance, a partner true and beautiful with whom you can share a life that will go on into the eternities. Concerning your marriage and your future endeavors, may I repeat with great earnestness and with all of the power of persuasion of which I am capable these words spoken repeatedly by President David O. McKay: 'No success in life can compensate for failure in the home.'

"Your future family relationships will be the greatest treasure of your life. No salary you will ever earn, no fees you will ever be paid will compensate for failure to live as you ought to live as a family."