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.
BOYD K. PACKERWhen 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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In a sense, speaking figuratively, to take one’s agency, that precious gift which the scriptures make plain is essential to life itself, and say, “I will do as you direct,” is afterward to learn that in so doing you possess it all the more.
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I’m not ashamed to say that I want to be good. And I’ve found in my life that it has been critically important to establish this intention between me and the Lord so that I knew that HE knew which way I committed my agency.
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The idea that life began with mortal birth is preposterous. There is no way to explain life if you believe that.
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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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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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How grateful we are for you, our youth.
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We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see
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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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Hit the ‘delete’ button when you have unrighteous thoughts.
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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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Music can set an atmosphere of worship which invites [the] spirit of revelation, of testimony.
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A testimony is a testimony, and it should be respected, whether it is small or large.
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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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Happily ever after never happens in the second act.
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No one of us can survive in the world of today, much less what it will become, without personal inspiration.
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