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When temptation comes, you can invent a delete key in your mind- perhaps the words from a favorite hymn. Your mind is in charge; your body is the instrument of your mind.

Boyd K. Packer

There is also an age-old excuse: “The devil made me do it.” Not so! He can deceive you and mislead you, but he does not have the power to force you or anyone else to transgress or to keep you in transgression.
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Age Deceive Devil Excuse
The ultimate effort of everything in the Church is to the end that a father and a mother and their children can be happy at home. If they are happy at home, they are spiritually prepared for whatever should be ahead of them in the world.
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Children Father Mother
Family time is sacred time and should be protected and respected.
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Family Sacred Should Time
Young men speak about the future because they have no past, and old men speak of the past because they have no future.
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Men Past Speak Young
If prayer is to leave the public schools, let the ridicule of prayer leave also.
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Prayer Ridicule School
The flak is always the heaviest closest to the target
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Closest Ministry Target
How grateful we are for you, our youth.
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Grateful Sucess Young Youth
No teaching is equal, more spiritually rewarding, or more exalting than that of a mother teaching her children.
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Children Mother Teaching
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
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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Attitude Life Prayer
Arms now empty will be filled and hearts now hurting from broken dreams and yearning will be healed.
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Arm Broken Dream Heart Hurt
The end of all activity in the church is to see that a man and a woman with their children are happy at home, sealed for eternity.
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Children Home Men
The Atonement has practical, personal, everyday value; apply it in your life. It can be activated with so simple a beginning as prayer.
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Everyday Prayer Simple
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
Fix that truth in your mind and hold to it. However many generations in your mortal ancestry, no matter what race or people you represent, the pedigree of your spirit can be written on a single line. You are a child of God!
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Fix Represent Truth Written
Tolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice.
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Tolerance Vices Virtue

When temptation comes, you can invent a delete key in your mind- perhaps the words from a favorite hymn. Your mind is in charge; your body is the instrument of your mind.

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