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The first gift that Adam and Eve received was agency: ‘Thou mayest choose for thyself, for it is given unto thee’ (Moses 3:17).

Boyd K. Packer

You ought to know that the Lord loves you. He will make that known to you, and it will be a very private and individual experience, something you cannot explain to anyone else.
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Individual Lord Love Ought You
I do not think it pleases the Lord when we worry because we think we never do enough or that what we do is never good enough….Some needlessly carry a heavy burden of guilt which could be removed through confession and repentance.
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Burden heavy Needlessly Please
One of the adversary’s sharpest tools is to convince us that we are no longer worthy to pray. No matter who you are or what you may have done, you can always pray.
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Convince Done Tools Us
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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Addiction Agency Moral
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
It has to be an awfully good meeting to beat having no meeting at all.
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Beats Meetings
We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see.
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Blind Health Life Obedience
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
This shield of faith is best fabricated in a cottage industry. While the shield can be polished in classes in the Church and in activities, it is meant to be handcrafted in the home and fitted to each individual.
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Each Individual Fabricated Faith
Do you realize how marvelous it is that you can call upon the Atonement? The Lord effected the Atonement for our sakes. And there isn’t anything that you can’t repent from and that you can’t be rescued from if you will repent and be determined to make the decision.
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Decision Determined Marvelous Realized Sake
How grateful we are for you, our youth.
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Grateful Sucess Young Youth
Some things that are true are not very useful.
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Some Thing Useful Very
The scriptures hold the keys to spiritual protection.
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Keys Scripture Spiritual
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
Some people think a miracle is only a miracle if it happens instantaneously, but miracles can grow slowly and patience and faith can compel things to happen that otherwise never would have come to pass.
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Faith People Thinking
Our whole social order could self-destruct over the obsession with freedom disconnected from responsibility; where choice is imagined to be somehow independent of consequences.
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Independent Responsibility Self

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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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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