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Some things that are true are not very useful.

Boyd K. Packer

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
Happily ever after never happens in the second act.
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After Ever Happens Happily
It was meant to be that life would be a challenge. To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal.
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Disappointment Life Struggle
If prayer is to leave the public schools, let the ridicule of prayer leave also.
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Prayer Ridicule School
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
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
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
Largely because of television, instead of looking over into that spacious building, we are, in effect, living inside of it. That is your fate in this generation. You are living in that great and spacious building.
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Balance Fate Generation Largely
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
Some people think a miracle is only a miracle if it happens instantaneously, but miracles can grow slowly and patience and faith can compel things to happen that otherwise never would have come to pass.
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Faith People Thinking
The scriptures hold the keys to spiritual protection.
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Keys Scripture Spiritual
I’m not ashamed to say that I want to be good. And I’ve found in my life that it has been critically important to establish this intention between me and the Lord so that I knew that HE knew which way I committed my agency.
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Agency Differences Giving
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
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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Children Fire Hands
The permissiveness afforded by the weakening of the laws of the land to tolerate legalized acts of immorality does not reduce the serious spiritual consequence that is the result of the violation of God’s law of chastity.
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Immorality Permissiveness Violation Weakening
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

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