“I ask you, what good is a big picture window and the lavish appointments and a priceless decor in a home if there is no mother there?”

—  Spencer W. Kimball

Source: The Miracle of Forgiveness

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President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 1895–1985

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