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When temptation comes, you can invent a delete key in your mind- perhaps the words from a favorite hymn. Your mind is in charge; your body is the instrument of your mind.

Boyd K. Packer

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
Happily ever after never happens in the second act.
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After Ever Happens Happily
There is a falsehood that some are born with an attraction to their own kind, with nothing they can do about it. They are just ‘that way’ and can only yield to those desires. That is a malicious and destructive lie. While it is a convincing idea to some, it is of the devil.
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Father Husband Lying
Happiness is inseparably connected with decent, clean behavior.
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Behavior Clean Decent
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
You always hold the key of repentance to unlock the prison door. If they throw the word diversity at you, grab hold of it and say, “I am already diverse, and I intend to stay diverse.”
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Doors Integrity Keys
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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Cal Children Husband Wives Released
The permissiveness afforded by the weakening of the laws of the land to tolerate legalized acts of immorality does not reduce the serious spiritual consequence that is the result of the violation of God’s law of chastity.
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Immorality Permissiveness Violation Weakening
He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty” – Lao-tsu One who can control his thoughts has conquered himself.
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Conquer Laos Strong
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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Event Faith Give Up Test Time Truth
Moral standards cannot be changed by battle and cannot be changed by ballot.
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Bailout Battle Moral Standards
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
No one of us can survive in the world of today, much less what it will become, without personal inspiration.
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Inspiration Today World
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
Our whole social order could self-destruct over the obsession with freedom disconnected from responsibility; where choice is imagined to be somehow independent of consequences.
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Independent Responsibility Self
If you have seen one of the temples at night, fully lighted, you know what an impressive sight that can be.
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Inspiration Jesus Spiritual

When temptation comes, you can invent a delete key in your mind- perhaps the words from a favorite hymn. Your mind is in charge; your body is the instrument of your mind.

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