Young men speak about the future because they have no past, and old men speak of the past because they have no future.
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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If you are burdened with depressing feelings of guilt or disappointment, of failure or shame, there is a cure.
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Tolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice.
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Faith is a real power, not just an expression of belief.
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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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No one of us can survive in the world of today, much less what it will become, without personal inspiration.
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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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Happiness is inseparably connected with decent, clean behavior.
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The answer is the same for everyone: we must, and we can, resist temptations of any kind.
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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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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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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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Somewhere there is a message in the protest of the man who said, “You can’t tell me that worry doesn’t help. The things I worry about never happen.”
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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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Christ’s mercy is the mighty healer; even to the wounded innocent.
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There are spiritual and physical laws to obey if we are to be happy.
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