A testimony of the hope of redemption is something which cannot be measured or counted. Jesus Christ is the source of that hope.
BOYD K. PACKERA testimony is a testimony, and it should be respected, whether it is small or large.
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When some unworthy thought pushes into your mind, replace it with your delete key. Worthy music is powerful and can help you control your thoughts.
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We live in a day when the adversary stresses on every hand the philosophy of instant gratification. We seem to demand instant everything, including instant solutions to our problems. . .
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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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Some people think a miracle is only a miracle if it happens instantaneously, but miracles can grow slowly and patience and faith can compel things to happen that otherwise never would have come to pass.
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In a sense, speaking figuratively, to take one’s agency, that precious gift which the scriptures make plain is essential to life itself, and say, “I will do as you direct,” is afterward to learn that in so doing you possess it all the more.
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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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Justice can seem to be so very demanding. But we must learn that when we put everything as right as we can put it right, it is Justice who invokes the Atonement, orders the adversary off our property, and posts the notice that his agents will make no more collections from us.
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Devotion to the family and devotion to the Church are not different and separate things.
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Often, very often, we are punished as much by our sins as we are for them.
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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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Progression: you can start from where you are.
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No service in the Church or in the community transcends that given in the home.
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Do not ever disturb prelude music for others, for reverence is essential to revelation
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What a wonderful time to be young. You will see events in your lifetime that will test your courage and extend your faith. If you will face the sunlight of truth, the shadows of discouragement and sin and error will fall behind you. You must never give up!
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Some things that are true are not very useful.
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Moral standards cannot be changed by battle and cannot be changed by ballot.
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How grateful we are for you, our youth.
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Behold, he who has repented of his sins, the same is forgiven, and I, the Lord, remember them no more.
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Husbands and wives should understand that their first calling-from which they will never be released-is to one another and then to their children.
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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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Fix that truth in your mind and hold to it. However many generations in your mortal ancestry, no matter what race or people you represent, the pedigree of your spirit can be written on a single line. You are a child of God!
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Freedom is not a self-preserving gift. It has to be earned, and it has to be protected.
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We were given our agency. We must use it wisely and remain close to the Spirit; otherwise, we foolishly find ourselves yielding to the enticements of the adversary.
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If prayer is to leave the public schools, let the ridicule of prayer leave also.
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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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There are spiritual and physical laws to obey if we are to be happy.
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