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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It has to be an awfully good meeting to beat having no meeting at all.
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Mature love has a bliss not even imagined by newlyweds.
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We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see
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It was meant to be that life would be a challenge. To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal.
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If the word is tolerance, grab that one, too, saying, “I expect you to be tolerant of my lifestyle-obedience, integrity, abstinence, repentance.” If the word is choice, tell them you choose good, old-fashioned morality.
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We could be like a father determined to provide everything for his family. He devotes every energy to that end and succeeds; only then does he discover that what they needed most, to be together as a family, has been neglected. And he reaps sorrow in place of contentment.
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One thing is very clear: the safest place and the best protection against the moral and spiritual diseases is a stable home and family. This has always been true; it will be true forever. We must keep that foremost in our minds.
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Fix that truth in your mind and hold to it. However many generations in your mortal ancestry, no matter what race or people you represent, the pedigree of your spirit can be written on a single line. You are a child of God!
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The Spirit is a voice that one feels more than hears.
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Tolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice.
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If you understand the great plan of happiness and follow it, what goes on in the world will not determine your happiness.
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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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Some worry endlessly over missions that were missed, or marriages that did not turn out, or babies that did not arrive, or children that seem lost, or dreams unfulfilled, or because age limits what they can do.
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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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Happiness is inseparably connected with decent, clean behavior.
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