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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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Throughout your life there may be times when you have gone places you never should have gone and done things you never should have done.
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Day One Pathways Place Throughout Time
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
Some things that are true are not very useful.
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Some Thing Useful Very
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
The flak is always the heaviest closest to the target
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Closest Ministry Target
Somewhere there is a message in the protest of the man who said, “You can’t tell me that worry doesn’t help. The things I worry about never happen.”
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Men Messages Worry
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.
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Enough Never Good Thinking Worry
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 answer is the same for everyone: we must, and we can, resist temptations of any kind.
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Answers Kind Temptation
We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see
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Blind Obedient See
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
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
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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Burning Learn Midnight Studying
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
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
A testimony is a testimony, and it should be respected, whether it is small or large.
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Repeated Should Testimony

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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