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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.

Boyd K. Packer

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
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
Family time is sacred time and should be protected and respected.
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Family Sacred Should Time
A testimony is a testimony, and it should be respected, whether it is small or large.
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Repeated Should Testimony
Keep the fire of your testimony of the restored gospel and your witness of our Redeemer burning so brightly that our children can warm their hands by the fire of your faith.
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Children Fire Hands
Faith, to be faith, must walk to the edge of the light, and then a few steps into the darkness. If everything has to be known, if everything has to be explained, if everything has to be certified, then there is no need for faith. Indeed, there is no room for it.
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Certified Edge Everything Faith
Mature love has a bliss not even imagined by newlyweds.
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Bliss Mature Love Newlyweds
Just as chalk can be removed from a chalkboard, with sincere repentance, the effects of our transgression can be erased through the atonement of Jesus Christ.
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Atonement Christ Jesus
Happily ever after never happens in the second act.
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After Ever Happens Happily
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
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
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
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….Some needlessly carry a heavy burden of guilt which could be removed through confession and repentance.
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Burden heavy Needlessly Please
Teach our members that if they have a good, miserable day once in a while, or several in a row, to stand steady and face them. Things will straighten out. There is great purpose in our struggle in life.
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Good Member Purpose Straighten Struggle
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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Able Distraction Dust Fog Temple
Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.
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Recycle Reuse Use

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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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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