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Devotion to the family and devotion to the Church are not different and separate things.

Boyd K. Packer

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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Hard Hurt Times Uplifting
The gospel stands as true for those who reject it as for those who accept it – both will be judged by it.
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Accepting Judge Rejects
Every soul confined in a prison of sin, guilt, or perversion has a key to the gate. The key is labeled “repentance.” If you know how to use this key, the adversary cannot hold you.
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Guilt Keys Prison Repentance Soul
We were given our agency. We must use it wisely and remain close to the Spirit; otherwise, we foolishly find ourselves yielding to the enticements of the adversary.
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Agency Enticements Otherwise Spirit Use
Mature love has a bliss not even imagined by newlyweds.
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Bliss Mature Love Newlyweds
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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Family Fear Particular
Devotion to the family and devotion to the Church are not different and separate things.
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Church Different Family
The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evil.
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Accountability Fame Choices Evil Fortune Poverty
One of the adversary’s sharpest tools is to convince us that we are no longer worthy to pray. No matter who you are or what you may have done, you can always pray.
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Convince Done Tools Us
Christ’s mercy is the mighty healer; even to the wounded innocent.
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Christ Innocent Mercy
No service in the Church or in the community transcends that given in the home.
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Church Community Home
Largely because of television, instead of looking over into that spacious building, we are, in effect, living inside of it. That is your fate in this generation. You are living in that great and spacious building.
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Balance Fate Generation Largely
We live in a day when the adversary stresses on every hand the philosophy of instant gratification. We seem to demand instant everything, including instant solutions to our problems. . .
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Disappointment Philosophy Stress
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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Agency Differences Giving
One who can control his thoughts has conquered himself.
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Conquerer Control Through
Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.
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