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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

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
One thing is very clear: the safest place and the best protection against the moral and spiritual diseases is a stable home and family. This has always been true; it will be true forever. We must keep that foremost in our minds.
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Class Home Keep Mind Spiritual
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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Lifetime Littles Mystery
The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evil.
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Accountability Fame Choices Evil Fortune Poverty
Take hold of your life and order yourself to be valiant.
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Hold Life Order Valiant
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
Behold, he who has repented of his sins, the same is forgiven, and I, the Lord, remember them no more.
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Lord Remember Repented Sin
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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Father Husband Lying
Fix that truth in your mind and hold to it. However many generations in your mortal ancestry, no matter what race or people you represent, the pedigree of your spirit can be written on a single line. You are a child of God!
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Fix Represent Truth Written
This shield of faith is best fabricated in a cottage industry. While the shield can be polished in classes in the Church and in activities, it is meant to be handcrafted in the home and fitted to each individual.
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Each Individual Fabricated Faith
Despite the opposition, trials, and temptations, you need not fail or fear.
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Needs Temptation Trials
Some things that are true are not very useful.
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Some Thing Useful Very
Music can set an atmosphere of worship which invites [the] spirit of revelation, of testimony.
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Atmosphere Music Spirit
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
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
You have that same agency. Use it wisely to deny acting on any impure impulse or unholy temptation that may come into your mind. Just do not go there, and if you are already there, come back out of it. ‘Deny yourselves of all ungodliness’ (Moroni 10:32).
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Already Come Impulse Mind Use

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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