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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.

Boyd K. Packer

We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see.
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Blind Health Life Obedience
Freedom is not a self-preserving gift. It has to be earned, and it has to be protected.
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Freedom Protected Self
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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Lifetime Littles Mystery
Tolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice.
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Tolerance Vices Virtue
We are able to feel and learn very quickly through music, through art, through poetry some spiritual things that we would otherwise learn very slowly.
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Able Art Music Spiritual
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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Already Come Impulse Mind Use
We live in a day when the adversary stresses on every hand the philosophy of instant gratification. We seem to demand instant everything, including instant solutions to our problems. . .
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Disappointment Philosophy Stress
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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Children Leader Parent
Keep the fire of your testimony of the restored gospel and your witness of our Redeemer burning so brightly that our children can warm their hands by the fire of your faith.
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Children Fire Hands
How grateful we are for you, our youth.
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Grateful Sucess Young Youth
Behold, he who has repented of his sins, the same is forgiven, and I, the Lord, remember them no more.
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Lord Remember Repented Sin
If you are burdened with depressing feelings of guilt or disappointment, of failure or shame, there is a cure.
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Depressing Disappointment Feelings
Family time is sacred time and should be protected and respected.
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Family Sacred Should Time
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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Attendance Jesus Records
We were given our agency. We must use it wisely and remain close to the Spirit; otherwise, we foolishly find ourselves yielding to the enticements of the adversary.
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Agency Enticements Otherwise Spirit Use
The answer is the same for everyone: we must, and we can, resist temptations of any kind.
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Answers Kind Temptation

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