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Fix that truth in your mind and hold to it. However many generations in your mortal ancestry, no matter what race or people you represent, the pedigree of your spirit can be written on a single line. You are a child of God!

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The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evil.
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Accountability Fame Choices Evil Fortune Poverty
Repentance is the key with which we can unlock the prison from inside. We hold that key within our hands, and agency is ours to use it.
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Agency Hands Keys Repetancy Unlock
The spiritually starving hesitate to partake of the Spirit like a child’s reaction to new and strange food. They must be offered a tiny bite on a spoon.
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Children Cooking Hesitate Spiritual Spoons
Do not ever disturb prelude music for others, for reverence is essential to revelation
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Essentials Prelude Revelations
It has to be an awfully good meeting to beat having no meeting at all.
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Beats Meetings
Behold, he who has repented of his sins, the same is forgiven, and I, the Lord, remember them no more.
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Lord Remember Repented Sin
No service in the Church or in the community transcends that given in the home.
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Church Community Home
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
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
Joseph’s vision of the Father and the Son opened this dispensation. Then came the Restoration of the fulness of the gospel of Jesus Christ with the same organization that existed in the primitive Church, built upon the foundation of apostles and prophets.
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Father Jesus Son Vision
If our view is limited to mortal life, some things become unbearable because they seem so unfair and so permanent.
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Unbearable Unfair Views
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
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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Gains Happy Life Water
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
I’m not ashamed to say that I want to be good. And I’ve found in my life that it has been critically important to establish this intention between me and the Lord so that I knew that HE knew which way I committed my agency.
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Agency Differences Giving
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
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
Keep the fire of your testimony of the restored gospel and your witness of our Redeemer burning so brightly that our children can warm their hands by the fire of your faith.
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Children Fire Hands
We are able to feel and learn very quickly through music, through art, through poetry some spiritual things that we would otherwise learn very slowly.
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Able Art Music Spiritual
Some things that are true are not very useful.
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Some Thing Useful Very
There are spiritual and physical laws to obey if we are to be happy.
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Happy Law Physical 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
How grateful we are for you, our youth.
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Grateful Sucess Young Youth
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
One who can control his thoughts has conquered himself.
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Conquerer Control Through
In the eternal scheme of things – not always in mortality – righteous yearning and longing will be fulfilled.
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Longing Mortality Schemes
The ultimate effort of everything in the Church is to the end that a father and a mother and their children can be happy at home. If they are happy at home, they are spiritually prepared for whatever should be ahead of them in the world.
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Fix that truth in your mind and hold to it. However many generations in your mortal ancestry, no matter what race or people you represent, the pedigree of your spirit can be written on a single line. You are a child of God!

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Fix that truth in your mind and hold to it. However many generations in your mortal ancestry, no matter what race or people you represent, the pedigree of your spirit can be written on a single line. You are a child of God!

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