Tolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice.
BOYD K. PACKERFear is the opposite of faith. We move forward, certain that the Lord will watch over us, particularly in the family.
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A testimony is a testimony, and it should be respected, whether it is small or large.
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Like most things of great worth, knowledge which is of eternal value comes only through personal prayer and pondering.
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Arms now empty will be filled and hearts now hurting from broken dreams and yearning will be healed.
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No service in the Church or in the community transcends that given in the home.
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Life moves all too fast. When you feel weak, discouraged, depressed, or afraid, open the Book of Mormon and read.
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The Spirit is a voice that one feels more than hears.
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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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Family time is sacred time and should be protected and respected.
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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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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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In or out of marriage, abortion is not an individual choice. At a minimum, three lives are involved.
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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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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….Some needlessly carry a heavy burden of guilt which could be removed through confession and repentance.
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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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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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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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Faith is a real power, not just an expression of belief.
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Our whole social order could self-destruct over the obsession with freedom disconnected from responsibility; where choice is imagined to be somehow independent of consequences.
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Progression: you can start from where you are.
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It is in the ordinances of the temple that we are placed under covenant to Him….[If] we will enter into our covenants without reservation or apology, the Lord will protect us. We will receive inspiration sufficient for the challenges of life.
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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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Seek worthy companions. Attend church faithfully. Never fail daily to seek for help through prayer. And I promise you that the way will be easier and you shall have a composure of mind and a confident attitude toward life and the future.
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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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Christ’s mercy is the mighty healer; even to the wounded innocent.
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Some things that are true are not very useful.
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Every soul confined in a prison of sin, guilt, or perversion has a key to the gate. The key is labeled “repentance.” If you know how to use this key, the adversary cannot hold you.
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