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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. Packer

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
No teaching is equal, more spiritually rewarding, or more exalting than that of a mother teaching her children.
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Children Mother Teaching
A testimony is a testimony, and it should be respected, whether it is small or large.
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Repeated Should Testimony
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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Able Art Music Spiritual
Every soul confined in a prison of sin, guilt, or perversion has a key to the gate. The key is labeled “repentance.” If you know how to use this key, the adversary cannot hold you.
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Guilt Keys Prison Repentance Soul
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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Convince Done Tools Us
You ought to know that the Lord loves you. He will make that known to you, and it will be a very private and individual experience, something you cannot explain to anyone else.
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Individual Lord Love Ought You
Historians should tell only that part of the truth that is inspiring and uplifting.
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Historians Inspire Truth
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
The flak is always the heaviest closest to the target
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Closest Ministry Target
Moral standards cannot be changed by battle and cannot be changed by ballot.
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Bailout Battle Moral Standards
The purest, most beautiful and appealing experiences of life: romance, love, marriage, and parenthood.
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Beautiful Love Marriage Romance
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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Cal Children Husband Wives Released
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
If you stumble, rise up, go on.
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Goes Rise Stumble
Latter-day Saints are not obedient because they are compelled to be obedient. They are obedient because they know certain spiritual truths and have decided, as an expression of their own individual agency, to obey the commandments of God. . . .
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Agency Expression Spiritual

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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