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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.

Boyd K. Packer

Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.
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Recycle Reuse Use
Happily ever after never happens in the second act.
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After Ever Happens Happily
We are able to feel and learn very quickly through music, through art, through poetry some spiritual things that we would otherwise learn very slowly.
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Able Art Music Spiritual
Life moves all too fast. When you feel weak, discouraged, depressed, or afraid, open the Book of Mormon and read.
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Book Discourage Moving
Husbands and wives should understand that their first calling-from which they will never be released-is to one another and then to their children.
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Cal Children Husband Wives Released
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
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
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
The house of the Lord, bathed in light, standing out in the darkness, becomes symbolic of the power and the inspiration of the gospel of Jesus Christ standing as a beacon in a world that sinks ever further into spiritual darkness.
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Darkness House Symbolic World
Often, very often, we are punished as much by our sins as we are for them.
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Offended Punish Sins
In or out of marriage, abortion is not an individual choice. At a minimum, three lives are involved.
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Abortion Individual Choice Involve
The Restoration began with the prayer of a 14-year-old boy and a vision of the Father and the Son. The dispensation of the fulness of times was ushered in.
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Father Prayer Son
This great circle of sisters will be a protection for each of you and for your families. The Relief Society might be likened to a refuge- the place of safety and protection- the sanctuary of ancient times. You will be safe within it. It encircles each sister like a protecting wall.
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Circles Family Great Safety Wall
The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evil.
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Accountability Fame Choices Evil Fortune Poverty
There are many things about living the gospel of Jesus Christ that cannot be measured by that which is counted or charted in records of attendance.
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Attendance Jesus Records
Temple. One other word is equal in importance to a Latter-day Saint. Home. Put the words holy temple and home together, and you have described the house of the Lord!
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Home House Together

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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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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