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In the eternal scheme of things – not always in mortality – righteous yearning and longing will be fulfilled.

Boyd K. Packer

How grateful we are for you, our youth.
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Grateful Sucess Young Youth
There is also an age-old excuse: “The devil made me do it.” Not so! He can deceive you and mislead you, but he does not have the power to force you or anyone else to transgress or to keep you in transgression.
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Age Deceive Devil Excuse
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
Largely because of television, instead of looking over into that spacious building, we are, in effect, living inside of it. That is your fate in this generation. You are living in that great and spacious building.
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Balance Fate Generation Largely
Life moves all too fast. When you feel weak, discouraged, depressed, or afraid, open the Book of Mormon and read.
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Book Discourage Moving
Often, very often, we are punished as much by our sins as we are for them.
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Offended Punish Sins
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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Quenched Scripture Speak
Tolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice.
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Tolerance Vices Virtue
Our lives are made up of thousands of everyday choices. Over the years these little choices will be bundled together and show clearly what we value.
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Choices Everyday Years
Mature love has a bliss not even imagined by newlyweds.
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Bliss Mature Love Newlyweds
Happily ever after never happens in the second act.
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After Ever Happens Happily
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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Fix Represent Truth Written
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
Like most things of great worth, knowledge which is of eternal value comes only through personal prayer and pondering.
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Fasting Prayer Whispering
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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Believe Ideas Life Preposterous
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

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