Family time is sacred time and should be protected and respected.
BOYD K. PACKERA 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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We could be like a father determined to provide everything for his family. He devotes every energy to that end and succeeds; only then does he discover that what they needed most, to be together as a family, has been neglected. And he reaps sorrow in place of contentment.
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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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I’ve learned the power of the dictum, “Early to bed, early to rise.” When I’m under pressure, you won’t find me burning the midnight oil. I’d much rather be in bed early and getting up in the wee hours of the morning.
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Fear is the opposite of faith. We move forward, certain that the Lord will watch over us, particularly in the family.
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You ought to know that the Lord loves you. He will make that known to you, and it will be a very private and individual experience, something you cannot explain to anyone else.
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Historians should tell only that part of the truth that is inspiring and uplifting.
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Often, very often, we are punished as much by our sins as we are for them.
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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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Arms now empty will be filled and hearts now hurting from broken dreams and yearning will be healed.
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Happiness is inseparably connected with decent, clean behavior.
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The scriptures hold the keys to spiritual protection.
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You have that same agency. Use it wisely to deny acting on any impure impulse or unholy temptation that may come into your mind. Just do not go there, and if you are already there, come back out of it. ‘Deny yourselves of all ungodliness’ (Moroni 10:32).
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The permissiveness afforded by the weakening of the laws of the land to tolerate legalized acts of immorality does not reduce the serious spiritual consequence that is the result of the violation of God’s law of chastity.
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If you need a transfusion of spiritual strength then just ask for it. We call that Prayer. Prayer is powerful spiritual medicine.
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Young men speak about the future because they have no past, and old men speak of the past because they have no future.
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