Like most things of great worth, knowledge which is of eternal value comes only through personal prayer and pondering.
BOYD K. PACKERIf you have seen one of the temples at night, fully lighted, you know what an impressive sight that can be.
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One of the adversary’s sharpest tools is to convince us that we are no longer worthy to pray. No matter who you are or what you may have done, you can always pray.
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If you stumble, rise up, go on.
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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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If our view is limited to mortal life, some things become unbearable because they seem so unfair and so permanent.
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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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Historians should tell only that part of the truth that is inspiring and uplifting.
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Happily ever after never happens in the second act.
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Take hold of your life and order yourself to be valiant.
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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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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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The first gift that Adam and Eve received was agency: ‘Thou mayest choose for thyself, for it is given unto thee’ (Moses 3:17).
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There’s no credit buying on eternal things, none at all. Anything that is worthwhile has to be paid for in advance.
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In the eternal scheme of things – not always in mortality – righteous yearning and longing will be fulfilled.
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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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You have that same agency. Use it wisely to deny acting on any impure impulse or unholy temptation that may come into your mind. Just do not go there, and if you are already there, come back out of it. ‘Deny yourselves of all ungodliness’ (Moroni 10:32).
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