Addiction has the capacity to disconnect the human will and nullify moral agency. It can rob one of the power to decide.
BOYD K. PACKERIf 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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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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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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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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Our lives are made up of thousands of everyday choices. Over the years these little choices will be bundled together and show clearly what we value.
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I know that God is our Father. He introduced His Son, Jesus Christ, to Joseph Smith. I declare to you that I know that Jesus is the Christ. I know that He lives. He was born in the meridian of time.
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If prayer is to leave the public schools, let the ridicule of prayer leave also.
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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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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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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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If you understand the great plan of happiness and follow it, what goes on in the world will not determine your happiness.
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The idea that life began with mortal birth is preposterous. There is no way to explain life if you believe that.
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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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Those who choose, conduct, present, and accompany the music may influence the spirit of reverence … more than a speaker does.
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Everything that I have learned from the revelations and from life convinces me that there is time and to spare for you to carefully prepare for a long life.
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If you stumble, rise up, go on.
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