There’s no credit buying on eternal things, none at all. Anything that is worthwhile has to be paid for in advance.
BOYD K. PACKERWe are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see
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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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The first gift that Adam and Eve received was agency: ‘Thou mayest choose for thyself, for it is given unto thee’ (Moses 3:17).
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The purest, most beautiful and appealing experiences of life: romance, love, marriage, and parenthood.
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No service in the Church or in the community transcends that given in the home.
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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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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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Faith is a real power, not just an expression of belief.
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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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In all that we do in the Church, we need to provide the way, as leaders, for parents and children to have time together as families.
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Progression: you can start from where you are.
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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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We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see.
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The gift of the Holy Ghost operates equally with men, women, and even little children. It is within this wondrous gift and power that the spiritual remedy to any problem can be found.
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If you need a transfusion of spiritual strength then just ask for it. We call that Prayer. Prayer is powerful spiritual medicine.
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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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