Often, very often, we are punished as much by our sins as we are for them.
BOYD K. PACKERNo one of us can survive in the world of today, much less what it will become, without personal inspiration.
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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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Faith, to be faith, must walk to the edge of the light, and then a few steps into the darkness. If everything has to be known, if everything has to be explained, if everything has to be certified, then there is no need for faith. Indeed, there is no room for it.
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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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Happily ever after never happens in the second act.
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The purest, most beautiful and appealing experiences of life: romance, love, marriage, and parenthood.
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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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Just as chalk can be removed from a chalkboard, with sincere repentance, the effects of our transgression can be erased through the atonement of Jesus Christ.
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Family time is sacred time and should be protected and respected.
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In all that we do in the Church, we need to provide the way, as leaders, for parents and children to have time together as families.
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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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Music can set an atmosphere of worship which invites [the] spirit of revelation, of testimony.
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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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A testimony is a testimony, and it should be respected, whether it is small or large.
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Mature love has a bliss not even imagined by newlyweds.
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If you understand the great plan of happiness and follow it, what goes on in the world will not determine your happiness.
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