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The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evil.

Boyd K. Packer

The first gift that Adam and Eve received was agency: ‘Thou mayest choose for thyself, for it is given unto thee’ (Moses 3:17).
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Agency Choose Eve Mind Received Temptation
I’ve learned the power of the dictum, “Early to bed, early to rise.” When I’m under pressure, you won’t find me burning the midnight oil. I’d much rather be in bed early and getting up in the wee hours of the morning.
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Burning Learn Midnight Studying
If you will turn away from sin, you will be able one day to know the peace that comes from following the pathway of complete repentance.
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Able Away Pathway Peace Repentance
When temptation comes, you can invent a delete key in your mind- perhaps the words from a favorite hymn. Your mind is in charge; your body is the instrument of your mind.
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Delete Hymns Keys Powerful Words
The answer is the same for everyone: we must, and we can, resist temptations of any kind.
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Answers Kind Temptation
Just as chalk can be removed from a chalkboard, with sincere repentance, the effects of our transgression can be erased through the atonement of Jesus Christ.
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Atonement Christ Jesus
Joseph’s vision of the Father and the Son opened this dispensation. Then came the Restoration of the fulness of the gospel of Jesus Christ with the same organization that existed in the primitive Church, built upon the foundation of apostles and prophets.
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Father Jesus Son Vision
Those who choose, conduct, present, and accompany the music may influence the spirit of reverence … more than a speaker does.
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Accompany May Reverance Spirit
Thoughts, like water, will stay on course if we make a place for them to go. As you learn to control your thoughts, you can gain courage, conquer fear and have a happy life.
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Gains Happy Life Water
How grateful we are for you, our youth.
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Grateful Sucess Young Youth
If you need a transfusion of spiritual strength then just ask for it. We call that Prayer. Prayer is powerful spiritual medicine.
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Powerful Prayer Spiritual Strength
One thing is very clear: the safest place and the best protection against the moral and spiritual diseases is a stable home and family. This has always been true; it will be true forever. We must keep that foremost in our minds.
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Class Home Keep Mind Spiritual
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
The spiritually starving hesitate to partake of the Spirit like a child’s reaction to new and strange food. They must be offered a tiny bite on a spoon.
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Children Cooking Hesitate Spiritual Spoons
The idea that life began with mortal birth is preposterous. There is no way to explain life if you believe that.
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Believe Ideas Life Preposterous
This shield of faith is best fabricated in a cottage industry. While the shield can be polished in classes in the Church and in activities, it is meant to be handcrafted in the home and fitted to each individual.
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Each Individual Fabricated Faith

The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evil.

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