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 understand the great plan of happiness and follow it, what goes on in the world will not determine your happiness.
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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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One who can control his thoughts has conquered himself.
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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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Music can set an atmosphere of worship which invites [the] spirit of revelation, of testimony.
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Family time is sacred time and should be protected and respected.
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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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The gift of the Holy Ghost operates equally with men, women, and even little children. It is within this wondrous gift and power that the spiritual remedy to any problem can be found.
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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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Christ’s mercy is the mighty healer; even to the wounded innocent.
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How grateful we are for you, our youth.
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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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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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The flak is always the heaviest closest to the target
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Arms now empty will be filled and hearts now hurting from broken dreams and yearning will be healed.
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Justice can seem to be so very demanding. But we must learn that when we put everything as right as we can put it right, it is Justice who invokes the Atonement, orders the adversary off our property, and posts the notice that his agents will make no more collections from us.
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