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What a wonderful time to be young. You will see events in your lifetime that will test your courage and extend your faith. If you will face the sunlight of truth, the shadows of discouragement and sin and error will fall behind you. You must never give up!

Boyd K. Packer

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
If you understand the great plan of happiness and follow it, what goes on in the world will not determine your happiness.
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Goes On Salvation Understand World
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
Life moves all too fast. When you feel weak, discouraged, depressed, or afraid, open the Book of Mormon and read.
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Book Discourage Moving
Addiction has the capacity to disconnect the human will and nullify moral agency. It can rob one of the power to decide.
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Addiction Agency Moral
A testimony of the hope of redemption is something which cannot be measured or counted. Jesus Christ is the source of that hope.
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Christ Jesus Redemption
I know that God is our Father. He introduced His Son, Jesus Christ, to Joseph Smith. I declare to you that I know that Jesus is the Christ. I know that He lives. He was born in the meridian of time.
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Father Jesus Son
Arms now empty will be filled and hearts now hurting from broken dreams and yearning will be healed.
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Arm Broken Dream Heart Hurt
Mature love has a bliss not even imagined by newlyweds.
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Bliss Mature Love Newlyweds
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
We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see
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Blind Obedient See
Christ’s mercy is the mighty healer; even to the wounded innocent.
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Christ Innocent Mercy
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
Music can set an atmosphere of worship which invites [the] spirit of revelation, of testimony.
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Atmosphere Music Spirit
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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Day One Pathways Place Throughout Time
The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ has the nourishing power to heal starving spirits of the world.
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Book Christ Jesus Nourishment Power World
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
There are many things about living the gospel of Jesus Christ that cannot be measured by that which is counted or charted in records of attendance.
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Attendance Jesus Records
Seek worthy companions. Attend church faithfully. Never fail daily to seek for help through prayer. And I promise you that the way will be easier and you shall have a composure of mind and a confident attitude toward life and the future.
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Attitude Life Prayer
The spiritually starving hesitate to partake of the Spirit like a child’s reaction to new and strange food. They must be offered a tiny bite on a spoon.
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Children Cooking Hesitate Spiritual Spoons
Take hold of your life and order yourself to be valiant.
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Hold Life Order Valiant
In all that we do in the Church, we need to provide the way, as leaders, for parents and children to have time together as families.
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Children Leader Parent
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
Happiness will depend on what each of us does with what each has, what we learn from what we do, and what we do thereafter.
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Depend Happiness Learning
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
The answer is the same for everyone: we must, and we can, resist temptations of any kind.
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Answers Kind Temptation
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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Choose Good Integrity Repentance Say

What a wonderful time to be young. You will see events in your lifetime that will test your courage and extend your faith. If you will face the sunlight of truth, the shadows of discouragement and sin and error will fall behind you. You must never give up!

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What a wonderful time to be young. You will see events in your lifetime that will test your courage and extend your faith. If you will face the sunlight of truth, the shadows of discouragement and sin and error will fall behind you. You must never give up!

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