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.
BOYD K. PACKERIn the eternal scheme of things – not always in mortality – righteous yearning and longing will be fulfilled.
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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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How grateful we are for you, our youth.
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A testimony is a testimony, and it should be respected, whether it is small or large.
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Progression: you can start from where you are.
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The scriptures speak of ‘the shield of faith wherewith,’ the Lord said, ‘ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked’ (D&C 27:17).
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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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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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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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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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In the eternal scheme of things – not always in mortality – righteous yearning and longing will be fulfilled.
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The answer is the same for everyone: we must, and we can, resist temptations of any kind.
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Often, very often, we are punished as much by our sins as we are for them.
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The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evil.
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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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Tolerance is a virtue, but like all virtues, when exaggerated, it transforms itself into a vice. We need to be careful of the “tolerance trap” so that we are not swallowed up in it.
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