If you will turn away from sin, you will be able one day to know the peace that comes from following the pathway of complete repentance.
BOYD K. PACKERRepentance is the key with which we can unlock the prison from inside. We hold that key within our hands, and agency is ours to use it.
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I’m not ashamed to say that I want to be good. And I’ve found in my life that it has been critically important to establish this intention between me and the Lord so that I knew that HE knew which way I committed my agency.
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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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Music can set an atmosphere of worship which invites [the] spirit of revelation, of testimony.
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In the eternal scheme of things – not always in mortality – righteous yearning and longing will be fulfilled.
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We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see
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The atonement of Christ is not just for those who sin. The mercy of Christ encompasses all pain.
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A testimony of the hope of redemption is something which cannot be measured or counted. Jesus Christ is the source of that hope.
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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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Like most things of great worth, knowledge which is of eternal value comes only through personal prayer and pondering.
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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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You always hold the key of repentance to unlock the prison door. If they throw the word diversity at you, grab hold of it and say, “I am already diverse, and I intend to stay diverse.”
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The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ has the nourishing power to heal starving spirits of the world.
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I’ve learned the power of the dictum, “Early to bed, early to rise.” When I’m under pressure, you won’t find me burning the midnight oil. I’d much rather be in bed early and getting up in the wee hours of the morning.
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Addiction has the capacity to disconnect the human will and nullify moral agency. It can rob one of the power to decide.
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Happiness is inseparably connected with decent, clean behavior.
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