A testimony is a testimony, and it should be respected, whether it is small or large.
BOYD K. PACKERSome 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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Those who choose, conduct, present, and accompany the music may influence the spirit of reverence … more than a speaker does.
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You have that same agency. Use it wisely to deny acting on any impure impulse or unholy temptation that may come into your mind. Just do not go there, and if you are already there, come back out of it. ‘Deny yourselves of all ungodliness’ (Moroni 10:32).
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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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Some things that are true are not very useful.
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The Atonement has practical, personal, everyday value; apply it in your life. It can be activated with so simple a beginning as prayer.
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Arms now empty will be filled and hearts now hurting from broken dreams and yearning will be healed.
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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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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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Temple. One other word is equal in importance to a Latter-day Saint. Home. Put the words holy temple and home together, and you have described the house of the Lord!
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Husbands and wives should understand that their first calling-from which they will never be released-is to one another and then to their children.
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We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see.
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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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The Restoration began with the prayer of a 14-year-old boy and a vision of the Father and the Son. The dispensation of the fulness of times was ushered in.
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There are few things more powerful than the faithful prayers of a righteous mother.
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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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