Hit the ‘delete’ button when you have unrighteous thoughts.
BOYD K. PACKERSome worry endlessly over missions that were missed, or marriages that did not turn out, or babies that did not arrive, or children that seem lost, or dreams unfulfilled, or because age limits what they can do.
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I’m not ashamed to say that I want to be good. And I’ve found in my life that it has been critically important to establish this intention between me and the Lord so that I knew that HE knew which way I committed my agency.
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The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evil.
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You have that same agency. Use it wisely to deny acting on any impure impulse or unholy temptation that may come into your mind. Just do not go there, and if you are already there, come back out of it. ‘Deny yourselves of all ungodliness’ (Moroni 10:32).
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Somewhere there is a message in the protest of the man who said, “You can’t tell me that worry doesn’t help. The things I worry about never happen.”
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If you stumble, rise up, go on.
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Do not ever disturb prelude music for others, for reverence is essential to revelation
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No teaching is equal, more spiritually rewarding, or more exalting than that of a mother teaching her children.
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If you understand the great plan of happiness and follow it, what goes on in the world will not determine your happiness.
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Latter-day Saints are not obedient because they are compelled to be obedient. They are obedient because they know certain spiritual truths and have decided, as an expression of their own individual agency, to obey the commandments of God. . . .
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The purest, most beautiful and appealing experiences of life: romance, love, marriage, and parenthood.
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The gospel stands as true for those who reject it as for those who accept it – both will be judged by it.
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I do not think it pleases the Lord when we worry because we think we never do enough or that what we do is never good enough.
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Tolerance is a virtue, but like all virtues, when exaggerated, it transforms itself into a vice. We need to be careful of the “tolerance trap” so that we are not swallowed up in it.
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Happiness will depend on what each of us does with what each has, what we learn from what we do, and what we do thereafter.
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Some things that are true are not very useful.
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