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We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see.

Boyd K. Packer

I know that God is our Father. He introduced His Son, Jesus Christ, to Joseph Smith. I declare to you that I know that Jesus is the Christ. I know that He lives. He was born in the meridian of time.
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Father Jesus Son
There are many things about living the gospel of Jesus Christ that cannot be measured by that which is counted or charted in records of attendance.
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Attendance Jesus Records
Often, very often, we are punished as much by our sins as we are for them.
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Offended Punish Sins
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
It has to be an awfully good meeting to beat having no meeting at all.
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Beats Meetings
Parents now are concerned about the moral and spiritual diseases. These can have terrible complications when standards and values are abandoned. We must all take protective measures.
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Disease Parent Spiritual
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
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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Everyday Prayer Simple
Happiness is inseparably connected with decent, clean behavior.
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Behavior Clean Decent
Progression: you can start from where you are.
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Country Place Progression Start
In or out of marriage, abortion is not an individual choice. At a minimum, three lives are involved.
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Abortion Individual Choice Involve
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
Everything that I have learned from the revelations and from life convinces me that there is time and to spare for you to carefully prepare for a long life.
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Carefully Everything Learned Prepare
There are spiritual and physical laws to obey if we are to be happy.
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Happy Law Physical Spiritual
In the eternal scheme of things – not always in mortality – righteous yearning and longing will be fulfilled.
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Longing Mortality Schemes
This shield of faith is best fabricated in a cottage industry. While the shield can be polished in classes in the Church and in activities, it is meant to be handcrafted in the home and fitted to each individual.
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Each Individual Fabricated Faith

We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see.

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