Addiction has the capacity to disconnect the human will and nullify moral agency. It can rob one of the power to decide.
BOYD K. PACKERThe end of all activity in the church is to see that a man and a woman with their children are happy at home, sealed for eternity.
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The answer is the same for everyone: we must, and we can, resist temptations of any kind.
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The Spirit is a voice that one feels more than hears.
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Everything that I have learned from the revelations and from life convinces me that there is time and to spare for you to carefully prepare for a long life.
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Despite the opposition, trials, and temptations, you need not fail or fear.
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The end of all activity in the church is to see that a man and a woman with their children are happy at home, sealed for eternity.
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The scriptures hold the keys to spiritual protection.
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It has to be an awfully good meeting to beat having no meeting at all.
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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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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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Music can set an atmosphere of worship which invites [the] spirit of revelation, of testimony.
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We could be like a father determined to provide everything for his family. He devotes every energy to that end and succeeds; only then does he discover that what they needed most, to be together as a family, has been neglected. And he reaps sorrow in place of contentment.
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At the temple the dust of distraction seems to settle out, the fog and the haze seem to lift, and we can ‘see’ things that we were not able to see before and find a way through our troubles that we had not previously known.
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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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No pain will last forever. It is not easy, but life was never meant to be either easy or fair. Repentance and the lasting hope that forgiveness brings will always be worth the effort.
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Historians should tell only that part of the truth that is inspiring and uplifting.
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