The first gift that Adam and Eve received was agency: ‘Thou mayest choose for thyself, for it is given unto thee’ (Moses 3:17).
BOYD K. PACKEROur lives are made up of thousands of everyday choices. Over the years these little choices will be bundled together and show clearly what we value.
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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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The gospel stands as true for those who reject it as for those who accept it – both will be judged by it.
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It has to be an awfully good meeting to beat having no meeting at all.
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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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The Restoration began with the prayer of a 14-year-old boy and a vision of the Father and the Son. The dispensation of the fulness of times was ushered in.
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Somewhere there is a message in the protest of the man who said, “You can’t tell me that worry doesn’t help. The things I worry about never happen.”
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We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see
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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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The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evil.
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Christ’s mercy is the mighty healer; even to the wounded innocent.
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If prayer is to leave the public schools, let the ridicule of prayer leave also.
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Happily ever after never happens in the second act.
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Arms now empty will be filled and hearts now hurting from broken dreams and yearning will be healed.
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No teaching is equal, more spiritually rewarding, or more exalting than that of a mother teaching her children.
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Justice can seem to be so very demanding. But we must learn that when we put everything as right as we can put it right, it is Justice who invokes the Atonement, orders the adversary off our property, and posts the notice that his agents will make no more collections from us.
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