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The spiritually starving hesitate to partake of the Spirit like a child’s reaction to new and strange food. They must be offered a tiny bite on a spoon.

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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
Some things that are true are not very useful.
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Some Thing Useful Very
Devotion to the family and devotion to the Church are not different and separate things.
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Church Different Family
We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see
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Blind Obedient See
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
The first gift that Adam and Eve received was agency: ‘Thou mayest choose for thyself, for it is given unto thee’ (Moses 3:17).
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Agency Choose Eve Mind Received Temptation
Mature love has a bliss not even imagined by newlyweds.
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Bliss Mature Love Newlyweds
Moral standards cannot be changed by battle and cannot be changed by ballot.
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Bailout Battle Moral Standards
If you need a transfusion of spiritual strength then just ask for it. We call that Prayer. Prayer is powerful spiritual medicine.
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Powerful Prayer Spiritual Strength
Everything that I have learned from the revelations and from life convinces me that there is time and to spare for you to carefully prepare for a long life.
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Carefully Everything Learned Prepare
What a wonderful time to be young. You will see events in your lifetime that will test your courage and extend your faith. If you will face the sunlight of truth, the shadows of discouragement and sin and error will fall behind you. You must never give up!
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Event Faith Give Up Test Time Truth
The spiritually starving hesitate to partake of the Spirit like a child’s reaction to new and strange food. They must be offered a tiny bite on a spoon.
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Children Cooking Hesitate Spiritual Spoons
The Atonement has practical, personal, everyday value; apply it in your life. It can be activated with so simple a beginning as prayer.
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Everyday Prayer Simple
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
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
Behold, he who has repented of his sins, the same is forgiven, and I, the Lord, remember them no more.
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Lord Remember Repented Sin
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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Accepting Judge Rejects
Hit the ‘delete’ button when you have unrighteous thoughts.
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Buttons Delete Thought Unrigheous
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
The idea that life began with mortal birth is preposterous. There is no way to explain life if you believe that.
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Believe Ideas Life Preposterous
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
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
No one of us can survive in the world of today, much less what it will become, without personal inspiration.
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Inspiration Today World
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
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
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
A testimony is a testimony, and it should be respected, whether it is small or large.
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Repeated Should Testimony

The spiritually starving hesitate to partake of the Spirit like a child’s reaction to new and strange food. They must be offered a tiny bite on a spoon.

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