Moral standards cannot be changed by battle and cannot be changed by ballot.
BOYD K. PACKERAddiction has the capacity to disconnect the human will and nullify moral agency. It can rob one of the power to decide.
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Take hold of your life and order yourself to be valiant.
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No service in the Church or in the community transcends that given in the home.
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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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Some things that are true are not very useful.
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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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Arms now empty will be filled and hearts now hurting from broken dreams and yearning will be healed.
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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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Those who choose, conduct, present, and accompany the music may influence the spirit of reverence … more than a speaker does.
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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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Hit the ‘delete’ button when you have unrighteous thoughts.
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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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It was meant to be that life would be a challenge. To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal.
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The answer is the same for everyone: we must, and we can, resist temptations of any kind.
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Addiction has the capacity to disconnect the human will and nullify moral agency. It can rob one of the power to decide.
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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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