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.
BOYD K. PACKERHappiness is inseparably connected with decent, clean behavior.
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One who can control his thoughts has conquered himself.
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No service in the Church or in the community transcends that given in the home.
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Justice can seem to be so very demanding. But we must learn that when we put everything as right as we can put it right, it is Justice who invokes the Atonement, orders the adversary off our property, and posts the notice that his agents will make no more collections from us.
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I know that God is our Father. He introduced His Son, Jesus Christ, to Joseph Smith. I declare to you that I know that Jesus is the Christ. I know that He lives. He was born in the meridian of time.
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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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The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ has the nourishing power to heal starving spirits of the world.
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The Spirit is a voice that one feels more than hears.
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A testimony is a testimony, and it should be respected, whether it is small or large.
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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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Tolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice.
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If you have seen one of the temples at night, fully lighted, you know what an impressive sight that can be.
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Seek worthy companions. Attend church faithfully. Never fail daily to seek for help through prayer. And I promise you that the way will be easier and you shall have a composure of mind and a confident attitude toward life and the future.
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I do not think it pleases the Lord when we worry because we think we never do enough or that what we do is never good enough.
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Our lives are made up of thousands of everyday choices. Over the years these little choices will be bundled together and show clearly what we value.
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At the temple the dust of distraction seems to settle out, the fog and the haze seem to lift, and we can ‘see’ things that we were not able to see before and find a way through our troubles that we had not previously known.
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