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The answer is the same for everyone: we must, and we can, resist temptations of any kind.

Boyd K. Packer

It is in the ordinances of the temple that we are placed under covenant to Him….[If] we will enter into our covenants without reservation or apology, the Lord will protect us. We will receive inspiration sufficient for the challenges of life.
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Apology Challenges Inspiration
Happiness will depend on what each of us does with what each has, what we learn from what we do, and what we do thereafter.
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Depend Happiness Learning
Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.
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Recycle Reuse Use
Some worry endlessly over missions that were missed, or marriages that did not turn out, or babies that did not arrive, or children that seem lost, or dreams unfulfilled, or because age limits what they can do.
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Baby Children Dream
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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Disease Parent Spiritual
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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Decision Determined Marvelous Realized Sake
One who can control his thoughts has conquered himself.
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Conquerer Control Through
Latter-day Saints are not obedient because they are compelled to be obedient. They are obedient because they know certain spiritual truths and have decided, as an expression of their own individual agency, to obey the commandments of God. . . .
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Agency Expression Spiritual
Tolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice.
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Tolerance Vices Virtue
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
Moral standards cannot be changed by battle and cannot be changed by ballot.
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Bailout Battle Moral Standards
The Restoration began with the prayer of a 14-year-old boy and a vision of the Father and the Son. The dispensation of the fulness of times was ushered in.
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Father Prayer Son
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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Choices Everyday Years
The scriptures speak of ‘the shield of faith wherewith,’ the Lord said, ‘ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked’ (D&C 27:17).
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Quenched Scripture Speak
If you are burdened with depressing feelings of guilt or disappointment, of failure or shame, there is a cure.
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Depressing Disappointment Feelings
A testimony is a testimony, and it should be respected, whether it is small or large.
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Repeated Should Testimony

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