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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.

Boyd K. Packer

The ultimate effort of everything in the Church is to the end that a father and a mother and their children can be happy at home. If they are happy at home, they are spiritually prepared for whatever should be ahead of them in the world.
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Children Father Mother
We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see.
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Blind Health Life Obedience
There’s no credit buying on eternal things, none at all. Anything that is worthwhile has to be paid for in advance.
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Advance Buying Credit Financial Paid Worthwide
Often, very often, we are punished as much by our sins as we are for them.
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Offended Punish Sins
One who can control his thoughts has conquered himself.
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Conquerer Control Through
I have a hard time with historians because they idolize the truth. The truth is not uplifting; it destroys. I could tell most of the secretaries in the church office building that they are ugly and fat. That would be the truth, but it would hurt and destroy them.
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Hard Hurt Times Uplifting
The end of all activity in the church is to see that a man and a woman with their children are happy at home, sealed for eternity.
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Children Home Men
Tolerance is a virtue, but like all virtues, when exaggerated, it transforms itself into a vice. We need to be careful of the “tolerance trap” so that we are not swallowed up in it.
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Land Law Spiritual
There are few things more powerful than the faithful prayers of a righteous mother.
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Inspirational Mother Spiritual
Fear is the opposite of faith. We move forward, certain that the Lord will watch over us, particularly in the family.
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Family Fear Particular
Just as chalk can be removed from a chalkboard, with sincere repentance, the effects of our transgression can be erased through the atonement of Jesus Christ.
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Atonement Christ Jesus
Tolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice.
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Tolerance Vices Virtue
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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Addiction Agency Moral
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.
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Enough Never Good Thinking Worry
Happiness is inseparably connected with decent, clean behavior.
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Behavior Clean Decent
We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see
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Blind Obedient See

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