I love this quotation from Joseph Smith:

Gems from the Teachings of Church Leaders
Love and Missionary Work
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October 19, 1840
Nauvoo, Illinois
Joseph Smith

“Love is one of the chief characteristics of Deity, and ought to be manifested by those who aspire to be the sons of God. A man filled with the love of God, is not content with blessing his family alone, but ranges through the whole world, anxious to bless the whole human race. This has been your feeling, and caused you to forego the pleasures of home, that you might be a blessing to others, who are candidates for immortality, but strangers to truth; and for so doing, I pray that heaven’s choicest blessings may rest upon you.”
( History of the Church, 4:227)

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