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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.

Boyd K. Packer

The idea that life began with mortal birth is preposterous. There is no way to explain life if you believe that.
BOYD K. PACKER

Believe Ideas Life Preposterous
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
In the eternal scheme of things – not always in mortality – righteous yearning and longing will be fulfilled.
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Longing Mortality Schemes
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
Freedom is not a self-preserving gift. It has to be earned, and it has to be protected.
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Freedom Protected Self
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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Men Past Speak Young
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
Despite the opposition, trials, and temptations, you need not fail or fear.
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Needs Temptation Trials
If you are burdened with depressing feelings of guilt or disappointment, of failure or shame, there is a cure.
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Depressing Disappointment Feelings
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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Lifetime Littles Mystery
We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see
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Blind Obedient See
Historians should tell only that part of the truth that is inspiring and uplifting.
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Historians Inspire Truth
There is a falsehood that some are born with an attraction to their own kind, with nothing they can do about it. They are just ‘that way’ and can only yield to those desires. That is a malicious and destructive lie. While it is a convincing idea to some, it is of the devil.
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Father Husband Lying
It has to be an awfully good meeting to beat having no meeting at all.
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Beats Meetings
The ultimate effort of everything in the Church is to the end that a father and a mother and their children can be happy at home. If they are happy at home, they are spiritually prepared for whatever should be ahead of them in the world.
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Children Father Mother
Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.
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