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It was meant to be that life would be a challenge. To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal.

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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
Despite the opposition, trials, and temptations, you need not fail or fear.
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Needs Temptation Trials
We live in a day when the adversary stresses on every hand the philosophy of instant gratification. We seem to demand instant everything, including instant solutions to our problems. . .
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Disappointment Philosophy Stress
Those who choose, conduct, present, and accompany the music may influence the spirit of reverence … more than a speaker does.
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Accompany May Reverance Spirit
Historians should tell only that part of the truth that is inspiring and uplifting.
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Historians Inspire Truth
I have a hard time with historians because they idolize the truth. The truth is not uplifting; it destroys. I could tell most of the secretaries in the church office building that they are ugly and fat. That would be the truth, but it would hurt and destroy them.
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Hard Hurt Times Uplifting
Parents now are concerned about the moral and spiritual diseases. These can have terrible complications when standards and values are abandoned. We must all take protective measures.
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Disease Parent Spiritual
Every soul confined in a prison of sin, guilt, or perversion has a key to the gate. The key is labeled “repentance.” If you know how to use this key, the adversary cannot hold you.
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Guilt Keys Prison Repentance Soul
Some things that are true are not very useful.
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Some Thing Useful Very
We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see.
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Blind Health Life Obedience
Take hold of your life and order yourself to be valiant.
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Hold Life Order Valiant
The flak is always the heaviest closest to the target
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Closest Ministry Target
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
There are few things more powerful than the faithful prayers of a righteous mother.
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Inspirational Mother Spiritual
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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Apology Challenges Inspiration
The atonement of Christ is not just for those who sin. The mercy of Christ encompasses all pain.
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Atonement Crise Pain Sin

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