Life moves all too fast. When you feel weak, discouraged, depressed, or afraid, open the Book of Mormon and read.
BOYD K. PACKERIf our view is limited to mortal life, some things become unbearable because they seem so unfair and so permanent.
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Just as chalk can be removed from a chalkboard, with sincere repentance, the effects of our transgression can be erased through the atonement of Jesus Christ.
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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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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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There are many things about living the gospel of Jesus Christ that cannot be measured by that which is counted or charted in records of attendance.
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If prayer is to leave the public schools, let the ridicule of prayer leave also.
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One who can control his thoughts has conquered himself.
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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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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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Do not ever disturb prelude music for others, for reverence is essential to revelation
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Some things that are true are not very useful.
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Hit the ‘delete’ button when you have unrighteous thoughts.
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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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No one of us can survive in the world of today, much less what it will become, without personal inspiration.
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If our view is limited to mortal life, some things become unbearable because they seem so unfair and so permanent.
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Faith is a real power, not just an expression of belief.
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