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.
BOYD K. PACKERWe are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see.
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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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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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We are able to feel and learn very quickly through music, through art, through poetry some spiritual things that we would otherwise learn very slowly.
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The Spirit is a voice that one feels more than hears.
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One of the adversary’s sharpest tools is to convince us that we are no longer worthy to pray. No matter who you are or what you may have done, you can always pray.
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Temple. One other word is equal in importance to a Latter-day Saint. Home. Put the words holy temple and home together, and you have described the house of the Lord!
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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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If you are burdened with depressing feelings of guilt or disappointment, of failure or shame, there is a cure.
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If our view is limited to mortal life, some things become unbearable because they seem so unfair and so permanent.
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Progression: you can start from where you are.
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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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Keep the fire of your testimony of the restored gospel and your witness of our Redeemer burning so brightly that our children can warm their hands by the fire of your faith.
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Tolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice.
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Addiction has the capacity to disconnect the human will and nullify moral agency. It can rob one of the power to decide.
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The spiritually starving hesitate to partake of the Spirit like a child’s reaction to new and strange food. They must be offered a tiny bite on a spoon.
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