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There is little to be gained by seeking after the mysteries, for there is hardly time in a lifetime to master the plain and precious things.

Boyd K. Packer

Some worry endlessly over missions that were missed, or marriages that did not turn out, or babies that did not arrive, or children that seem lost, or dreams unfulfilled, or because age limits what they can do.
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Baby Children Dream
There’s no credit buying on eternal things, none at all. Anything that is worthwhile has to be paid for in advance.
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Advance Buying Credit Financial Paid Worthwide
I do not think it pleases the Lord when we worry because we think we never do enough or that what we do is never good enough.
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Enough Never Good Thinking Worry
Music can set an atmosphere of worship which invites [the] spirit of revelation, of testimony.
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Atmosphere Music Spirit
The gift of the Holy Ghost operates equally with men, women, and even little children. It is within this wondrous gift and power that the spiritual remedy to any problem can be found.
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Children Men Spiritual
The first gift that Adam and Eve received was agency: ‘Thou mayest choose for thyself, for it is given unto thee’ (Moses 3:17).
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Agency Choose Eve Mind Received Temptation
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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Doors Integrity Keys
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
Devotion to the family and devotion to the Church are not different and separate things.
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Church Different Family
Tolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice.
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Tolerance Vices Virtue
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
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
The house of the Lord, bathed in light, standing out in the darkness, becomes symbolic of the power and the inspiration of the gospel of Jesus Christ standing as a beacon in a world that sinks ever further into spiritual darkness.
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Darkness House Symbolic World
In the eternal scheme of things – not always in mortality – righteous yearning and longing will be fulfilled.
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Longing Mortality Schemes
No service in the Church or in the community transcends that given in the home.
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Church Community Home
We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see
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Blind Obedient See

There is little to be gained by seeking after the mysteries, for there is hardly time in a lifetime to master the plain and precious things.

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