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We are able to feel and learn very quickly through music, through art, through poetry some spiritual things that we would otherwise learn very slowly.

Boyd K. Packer

Teach our members that if they have a good, miserable day once in a while, or several in a row, to stand steady and face them. Things will straighten out. There is great purpose in our struggle in life.
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Good Member Purpose Straighten Struggle
Christ’s mercy is the mighty healer; even to the wounded innocent.
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Christ Innocent Mercy
The scriptures speak of ‘the shield of faith wherewith,’ the Lord said, ‘ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked’ (D&C 27:17).
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Quenched Scripture Speak
I have a hard time with historians because they idolize the truth. The truth is not uplifting; it destroys. I could tell most of the secretaries in the church office building that they are ugly and fat. That would be the truth, but it would hurt and destroy them.
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Hard Hurt Times Uplifting
Mature love has a bliss not even imagined by newlyweds.
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Bliss Mature Love Newlyweds
This great circle of sisters will be a protection for each of you and for your families. The Relief Society might be likened to a refuge- the place of safety and protection- the sanctuary of ancient times. You will be safe within it. It encircles each sister like a protecting wall.
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Circles Family Great Safety Wall
There is a falsehood that some are born with an attraction to their own kind, with nothing they can do about it. They are just ‘that way’ and can only yield to those desires. That is a malicious and destructive lie. While it is a convincing idea to some, it is of the devil.
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Father Husband Lying
Devotion to the family and devotion to the Church are not different and separate things.
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Church Different Family
The scriptures hold the keys to spiritual protection.
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Keys Scripture Spiritual
Some 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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Baby Children Dream
Moral standards cannot be changed by battle and cannot be changed by ballot.
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Bailout Battle Moral Standards
It was meant to be that life would be a challenge. To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal.
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Disappointment Life Struggle
Despite the opposition, trials, and temptations, you need not fail or fear.
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Needs Temptation Trials
It has to be an awfully good meeting to beat having no meeting at all.
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Beats Meetings
Repentance is the key with which we can unlock the prison from inside. We hold that key within our hands, and agency is ours to use it.
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Agency Hands Keys Repetancy Unlock
Freedom is not a self-preserving gift. It has to be earned, and it has to be protected.
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Freedom Protected Self

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