Addiction has the capacity to disconnect the human will and nullify moral agency. It can rob one of the power to decide.
BOYD K. PACKERThe answer is the same for everyone: we must, and we can, resist temptations of any kind.
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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 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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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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Joseph’s vision of the Father and the Son opened this dispensation. Then came the Restoration of the fulness of the gospel of Jesus Christ with the same organization that existed in the primitive Church, built upon the foundation of apostles and prophets.
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Somewhere there is a message in the protest of the man who said, “You can’t tell me that worry doesn’t help. The things I worry about never happen.”
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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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Tolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice.
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Some people think a miracle is only a miracle if it happens instantaneously, but miracles can grow slowly and patience and faith can compel things to happen that otherwise never would have come to pass.
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In or out of marriage, abortion is not an individual choice. At a minimum, three lives are involved.
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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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There are spiritual and physical laws to obey if we are to be happy.
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No service in the Church or in the community transcends that given in the home.
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Take hold of your life and order yourself to be valiant.
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If you are burdened with depressing feelings of guilt or disappointment, of failure or shame, there is a cure.
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Behold, he who has repented of his sins, the same is forgiven, and I, the Lord, remember them no more.
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