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No one of us can survive in the world of today, much less what it will become, without personal inspiration.

Boyd K. Packer

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 permissiveness afforded by the weakening of the laws of the land to tolerate legalized acts of immorality does not reduce the serious spiritual consequence that is the result of the violation of God’s law of chastity.
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Immorality Permissiveness Violation Weakening
The Spirit is a voice that one feels more than hears.
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Feels Spirit Voice
Largely because of television, instead of looking over into that spacious building, we are, in effect, living inside of it. That is your fate in this generation. You are living in that great and spacious building.
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Balance Fate Generation Largely
If prayer is to leave the public schools, let the ridicule of prayer leave also.
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Prayer Ridicule School
Latter-day Saints are not obedient because they are compelled to be obedient. They are obedient because they know certain spiritual truths and have decided, as an expression of their own individual agency, to obey the commandments of God. . . .
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Agency Expression Spiritual
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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Enough Never Good Thinking Worry
We live in a day when the adversary stresses on every hand the philosophy of instant gratification. We seem to demand instant everything, including instant solutions to our problems. . .
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Disappointment Philosophy Stress
If the word is tolerance, grab that one, too, saying, “I expect you to be tolerant of my lifestyle-obedience, integrity, abstinence, repentance.” If the word is choice, tell them you choose good, old-fashioned morality.
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Choose Good Integrity Repentance Say
At the temple the dust of distraction seems to settle out, the fog and the haze seem to lift, and we can ‘see’ things that we were not able to see before and find a way through our troubles that we had not previously known.
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Able Distraction Dust Fog Temple
There are many things about living the gospel of Jesus Christ that cannot be measured by that which is counted or charted in records of attendance.
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Attendance Jesus Records
Often, very often, we are punished as much by our sins as we are for them.
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Offended Punish Sins
A testimony is a testimony, and it should be respected, whether it is small or large.
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Repeated Should Testimony
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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Delete Hymns Keys Powerful Words
Freedom is not a self-preserving gift. It has to be earned, and it has to be protected.
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Freedom Protected Self
Despite the opposition, trials, and temptations, you need not fail or fear.
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Needs Temptation Trials

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