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The Atonement has practical, personal, everyday value; apply it in your life. It can be activated with so simple a beginning as prayer.

Boyd K. Packer

We were given our agency. We must use it wisely and remain close to the Spirit; otherwise, we foolishly find ourselves yielding to the enticements of the adversary.
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Agency Enticements Otherwise Spirit Use
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
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
In the eternal scheme of things – not always in mortality – righteous yearning and longing will be fulfilled.
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Longing Mortality Schemes
No one of us can survive in the world of today, much less what it will become, without personal inspiration.
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Inspiration Today World
Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.
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Recycle Reuse Use
Often, very often, we are punished as much by our sins as we are for them.
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Offended Punish Sins
Some things that are true are not very useful.
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Some Thing Useful Very
Faith, to be faith, must walk to the edge of the light, and then a few steps into the darkness. If everything has to be known, if everything has to be explained, if everything has to be certified, then there is no need for faith. Indeed, there is no room for it.
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Certified Edge Everything Faith
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.
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Able Away Pathway Peace Repentance
It is in the ordinances of the temple that we are placed under covenant to Him….[If] we will enter into our covenants without reservation or apology, the Lord will protect us. We will receive inspiration sufficient for the challenges of life.
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Apology Challenges Inspiration
Christ’s mercy is the mighty healer; even to the wounded innocent.
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Christ Innocent Mercy
There is little to be gained by seeking after the mysteries, for there is hardly time in a lifetime to master the plain and precious things.
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Lifetime Littles Mystery
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
Happiness is inseparably connected with decent, clean behavior.
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Behavior Clean Decent
Parents now are concerned about the moral and spiritual diseases. These can have terrible complications when standards and values are abandoned. We must all take protective measures.
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Disease Parent Spiritual

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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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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