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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.

Boyd K. Packer

Despite the opposition, trials, and temptations, you need not fail or fear.
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Needs Temptation Trials
If you have seen one of the temples at night, fully lighted, you know what an impressive sight that can be.
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Inspiration Jesus Spiritual
Some worry endlessly over missions that were missed, or marriages that did not turn out, or babies that did not arrive, or children that seem lost, or dreams unfulfilled, or because age limits what they can do.
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Baby Children Dream
Historians should tell only that part of the truth that is inspiring and uplifting.
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Historians Inspire Truth
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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Doors Integrity Keys
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
Justice can seem to be so very demanding. But we must learn that when we put everything as right as we can put it right, it is Justice who invokes the Atonement, orders the adversary off our property, and posts the notice that his agents will make no more collections from us.
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Demanding Justice Learning Life Order
A testimony is a testimony, and it should be respected, whether it is small or large.
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Repeated Should Testimony
Tolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice.
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Tolerance Vices Virtue
In a sense, speaking figuratively, to take one’s agency, that precious gift which the scriptures make plain is essential to life itself, and say, “I will do as you direct,” is afterward to learn that in so doing you possess it all the more.
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Afterward Discovery Greatest Learn Scriptures
Fear is the opposite of faith. We move forward, certain that the Lord will watch over us, particularly in the family.
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Family Fear Particular
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
The gift of the Holy Ghost operates equally with men, women, and even little children. It is within this wondrous gift and power that the spiritual remedy to any problem can be found.
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Children Men Spiritual
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
Faith is a real power, not just an expression of belief.
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Inspirational Real Spiritual
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

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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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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