The idea that life began with mortal birth is preposterous. There is no way to explain life if you believe that.
BOYD K. PACKERThe atonement of Christ is not just for those who sin. The mercy of Christ encompasses all pain.
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Life moves all too fast. When you feel weak, discouraged, depressed, or afraid, open the Book of Mormon and read.
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If you are burdened with depressing feelings of guilt or disappointment, of failure or shame, there is a cure.
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If prayer is to leave the public schools, let the ridicule of prayer leave also.
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We could be like a father determined to provide everything for his family. He devotes every energy to that end and succeeds; only then does he discover that what they needed most, to be together as a family, has been neglected. And he reaps sorrow in place of contentment.
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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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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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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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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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The atonement of Christ is not just for those who sin. The mercy of Christ encompasses all pain.
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We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see
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Moral standards cannot be changed by battle and cannot be changed by ballot.
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Those who choose, conduct, present, and accompany the music may influence the spirit of reverence … more than a speaker does.
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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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How grateful we are for you, our youth.
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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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