One thing is very clear: the safest place and the best protection against the moral and spiritual diseases is a stable home and family. This has always been true; it will be true forever. We must keep that foremost in our minds.
BOYD K. PACKERIn or out of marriage, abortion is not an individual choice. At a minimum, three lives are involved.
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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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The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evil.
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Parents now are concerned about the moral and spiritual diseases. These can have terrible complications when standards and values are abandoned. We must all take protective measures.
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There’s no credit buying on eternal things, none at all. Anything that is worthwhile has to be paid for in advance.
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There is little to be gained by seeking after the mysteries, for there is hardly time in a lifetime to master the plain and precious things.
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Despite the opposition, trials, and temptations, you need not fail or fear.
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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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Thoughts, like water, will stay on course if we make a place for them to go. As you learn to control your thoughts, you can gain courage, conquer fear and have a happy life.
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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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There are spiritual and physical laws to obey if we are to be happy.
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Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.
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Keep the fire of your testimony of the restored gospel and your witness of our Redeemer burning so brightly that our children can warm their hands by the fire of your faith.
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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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In the eternal scheme of things – not always in mortality – righteous yearning and longing will be fulfilled.
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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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