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Boyd K. Packer

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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Immorality Permissiveness Violation Weakening
If the word is tolerance, grab that one, too, saying, “I expect you to be tolerant of my lifestyle-obedience, integrity, abstinence, repentance.” If the word is choice, tell them you choose good, old-fashioned morality.
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Choose Good Integrity Repentance Say
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
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Country Place Progression Start
Thoughts, like water, will stay on course if we make a place for them to go. As you learn to control your thoughts, you can gain courage, conquer fear and have a happy life.
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Gains Happy Life Water
Latter-day Saints are not obedient because they are compelled to be obedient. They are obedient because they know certain spiritual truths and have decided, as an expression of their own individual agency, to obey the commandments of God. . . .
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Agency Expression Spiritual
Music can set an atmosphere of worship which invites [the] spirit of revelation, of testimony.
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Atmosphere Music Spirit
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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Inspirational Pain Spiritual
Happiness is inseparably connected with decent, clean behavior.
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Behavior Clean Decent
If prayer is to leave the public schools, let the ridicule of prayer leave also.
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Prayer Ridicule School
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
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
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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Delete Hymns Keys Powerful Words
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
If you understand the great plan of happiness and follow it, what goes on in the world will not determine your happiness.
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Goes On Salvation Understand World
Often, very often, we are punished as much by our sins as we are for them.
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Offended Punish Sins

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