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. . .
BOYD K. PACKERRepentance 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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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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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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Happily ever after never happens in the second act.
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A testimony is a testimony, and it should be respected, whether it is small or large.
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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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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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It has to be an awfully good meeting to beat having no meeting at all.
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Take hold of your life and order yourself to be valiant.
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You always hold the key of repentance to unlock the prison door. If they throw the word diversity at you, grab hold of it and say, “I am already diverse, and I intend to stay diverse.”
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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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There is little to be gained by seeking after the mysteries, for there is hardly time in a lifetime to master the plain and precious things.
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If you have seen one of the temples at night, fully lighted, you know what an impressive sight that can be.
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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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We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see
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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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