Thoughts, like water, will stay on course if we make a place for them to go. As you learn to control your thoughts, you can gain courage, conquer fear and have a happy life.
BOYD K. PACKERMature love has a bliss not even imagined by newlyweds.
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Young men speak about the future because they have no past, and old men speak of the past because they have no future.
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Addiction has the capacity to disconnect the human will and nullify moral agency. It can rob one of the power to decide.
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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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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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One who can control his thoughts has conquered himself.
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There are many things about living the gospel of Jesus Christ that cannot be measured by that which is counted or charted in records of attendance.
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Music can set an atmosphere of worship which invites [the] spirit of revelation, of testimony.
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Happily ever after never happens in the second act.
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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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No teaching is equal, more spiritually rewarding, or more exalting than that of a mother teaching her children.
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We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see.
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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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If you are burdened with depressing feelings of guilt or disappointment, of failure or shame, there is a cure.
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Hit the ‘delete’ button when you have unrighteous thoughts.
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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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