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Young men speak about the future because they have no past, and old men speak of the past because they have no future.

Boyd K. Packer

Repentance is the key with which we can unlock the prison from inside. We hold that key within our hands, and agency is ours to use it.
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Agency Hands Keys Repetancy Unlock
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
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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Father Parenting Sorrow
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….Some needlessly carry a heavy burden of guilt which could be removed through confession and repentance.
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Burden heavy Needlessly Please
Throughout your life there may be times when you have gone places you never should have gone and done things you never should have done.
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Day One Pathways Place Throughout Time
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
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
No service in the Church or in the community transcends that given in the home.
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Church Community Home
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
Somewhere there is a message in the protest of the man who said, “You can’t tell me that worry doesn’t help. The things I worry about never happen.”
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Men Messages Worry
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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Class Home Keep Mind Spiritual
The house of the Lord, bathed in light, standing out in the darkness, becomes symbolic of the power and the inspiration of the gospel of Jesus Christ standing as a beacon in a world that sinks ever further into spiritual darkness.
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Darkness House Symbolic World
Often, very often, we are punished as much by our sins as we are for them.
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Offended Punish Sins
We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see.
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Blind Health Life Obedience
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
At the temple the dust of distraction seems to settle out, the fog and the haze seem to lift, and we can ‘see’ things that we were not able to see before and find a way through our troubles that we had not previously known.
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Able Distraction Dust Fog Temple

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