The answer is the same for everyone: we must, and we can, resist temptations of any kind.
BOYD K. PACKERThe Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ has the nourishing power to heal starving spirits of the world.
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Some worry endlessly over missions that were missed, or marriages that did not turn out, or babies that did not arrive, or children that seem lost, or dreams unfulfilled, or because age limits what they can do.
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A testimony of the hope of redemption is something which cannot be measured or counted. Jesus Christ is the source of that hope.
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It has to be an awfully good meeting to beat having no meeting at all.
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The house of the Lord, bathed in light, standing out in the darkness, becomes symbolic of the power and the inspiration of the gospel of Jesus Christ standing as a beacon in a world that sinks ever further into spiritual darkness.
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Faith, to be faith, must walk to the edge of the light, and then a few steps into the darkness. If everything has to be known, if everything has to be explained, if everything has to be certified, then there is no need for faith. Indeed, there is no room for it.
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Happily ever after never happens in the second act.
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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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The Spirit is a voice that one feels more than hears.
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Family time is sacred time and should be protected and respected.
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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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In or out of marriage, abortion is not an individual choice. At a minimum, three lives are involved.
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In a sense, speaking figuratively, to take one’s agency, that precious gift which the scriptures make plain is essential to life itself, and say, “I will do as you direct,” is afterward to learn that in so doing you possess it all the more.
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The Restoration began with the prayer of a 14-year-old boy and a vision of the Father and the Son. The dispensation of the fulness of times was ushered in.
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Christ’s mercy is the mighty healer; even to the wounded innocent.
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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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