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If the word is tolerance, grab that one, too, saying, “I expect you to be tolerant of my lifestyle-obedience, integrity, abstinence, repentance.” If the word is choice, tell them you choose good, old-fashioned morality.

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Tolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice.
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Tolerance Vices Virtue
Those who choose, conduct, present, and accompany the music may influence the spirit of reverence … more than a speaker does.
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Accompany May Reverance Spirit
If you are burdened with depressing feelings of guilt or disappointment, of failure or shame, there is a cure.
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Depressing Disappointment Feelings
Music can set an atmosphere of worship which invites [the] spirit of revelation, of testimony.
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Atmosphere Music Spirit
We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see.
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Blind Health Life Obedience
Tolerance is a virtue, but like all virtues, when exaggerated, it transforms itself into a vice. We need to be careful of the “tolerance trap” so that we are not swallowed up in it.
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Land Law Spiritual
Christ’s mercy is the mighty healer; even to the wounded innocent.
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Christ Innocent Mercy
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
Fear is the opposite of faith. We move forward, certain that the Lord will watch over us, particularly in the family.
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Family Fear Particular
Joseph’s vision of the Father and the Son opened this dispensation. Then came the Restoration of the fulness of the gospel of Jesus Christ with the same organization that existed in the primitive Church, built upon the foundation of apostles and prophets.
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Father Jesus Son Vision
The purest, most beautiful and appealing experiences of life: romance, love, marriage, and parenthood.
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Beautiful Love Marriage Romance
The ultimate effort of everything in the Church is to the end that a father and a mother and their children can be happy at home. If they are happy at home, they are spiritually prepared for whatever should be ahead of them in the world.
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Children Father Mother
Young men speak about the future because they have no past, and old men speak of the past because they have no future.
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Men Past Speak Young
Family time is sacred time and should be protected and respected.
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Family Sacred Should Time
Despite the opposition, trials, and temptations, you need not fail or fear.
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Needs Temptation Trials
It is in the ordinances of the temple that we are placed under covenant to Him….[If] we will enter into our covenants without reservation or apology, the Lord will protect us. We will receive inspiration sufficient for the challenges of life.
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Apology Challenges Inspiration

If the word is tolerance, grab that one, too, saying, “I expect you to be tolerant of my lifestyle-obedience, integrity, abstinence, repentance.” If the word is choice, tell them you choose good, old-fashioned morality.

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If the word is tolerance, grab that one, too, saying, “I expect you to be tolerant of my lifestyle-obedience, integrity, abstinence, repentance.” If the word is choice, tell them you choose good, old-fashioned morality.

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