If you understand the great plan of happiness and follow it, what goes on in the world will not determine your happiness.
BOYD K. PACKERIt 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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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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One of the adversary’s sharpest tools is to convince us that we are no longer worthy to pray. No matter who you are or what you may have done, you can always pray.
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Christ’s mercy is the mighty healer; even to the wounded innocent.
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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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Those who choose, conduct, present, and accompany the music may influence the spirit of reverence … more than a speaker does.
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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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No one of us can survive in the world of today, much less what it will become, without personal inspiration.
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Faith, to be faith, must walk to the edge of the light, and then a few steps into the darkness. If everything has to be known, if everything has to be explained, if everything has to be certified, then there is no need for faith. Indeed, there is no room for 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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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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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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Often, very often, we are punished as much by our sins as we are for them.
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The purest, most beautiful and appealing experiences of life: romance, love, marriage, and parenthood.
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Historians should tell only that part of the truth that is inspiring and uplifting.
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The flak is always the heaviest closest to the target
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