Fear is the opposite of faith. We move forward, certain that the Lord will watch over us, particularly in the family.
BOYD K. PACKERThe 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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Do not ever disturb prelude music for others, for reverence is essential to revelation
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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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When temptation comes, you can invent a delete key in your mind- perhaps the words from a favorite hymn. Your mind is in charge; your body is the instrument of your mind.
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One who can control his thoughts has conquered himself.
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You have that same agency. Use it wisely to deny acting on any impure impulse or unholy temptation that may come into your mind. Just do not go there, and if you are already there, come back out of it. ‘Deny yourselves of all ungodliness’ (Moroni 10:32).
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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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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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Mature love has a bliss not even imagined by newlyweds.
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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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Young men speak about the future because they have no past, and old men speak of the past because they have no future.
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If prayer is to leave the public schools, let the ridicule of prayer leave also.
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In all that we do in the Church, we need to provide the way, as leaders, for parents and children to have time together as families.
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No teaching is equal, more spiritually rewarding, or more exalting than that of a mother teaching her children.
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Happily ever after never happens in the second act.
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In the eternal scheme of things – not always in mortality – righteous yearning and longing will be fulfilled.
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