If you need a transfusion of spiritual strength then just ask for it. We call that Prayer. Prayer is powerful spiritual medicine.
BOYD K. PACKEROur whole social order could self-destruct over the obsession with freedom disconnected from responsibility; where choice is imagined to be somehow independent of consequences.
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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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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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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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If prayer is to leave the public schools, let the ridicule of prayer leave also.
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The Atonement has practical, personal, everyday value; apply it in your life. It can be activated with so simple a beginning as prayer.
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When temptation comes, you can invent a delete key in your mind- perhaps the words from a favorite hymn. Your mind is in charge; your body is the instrument of your mind.
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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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No one of us can survive in the world of today, much less what it will become, without personal inspiration.
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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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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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It has to be an awfully good meeting to beat having no meeting at all.
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Repentance is the key with which we can unlock the prison from inside. We hold that key within our hands, and agency is ours to use it.
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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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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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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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