Historians should tell only that part of the truth that is inspiring and uplifting.
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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If you will turn away from sin, you will be able one day to know the peace that comes from following the pathway of complete repentance.
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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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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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Arms now empty will be filled and hearts now hurting from broken dreams and yearning will be healed.
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There are spiritual and physical laws to obey if we are to be happy.
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I know that God is our Father. He introduced His Son, Jesus Christ, to Joseph Smith. I declare to you that I know that Jesus is the Christ. I know that He lives. He was born in the meridian of time.
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One who can control his thoughts has conquered himself.
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Those who choose, conduct, present, and accompany the music may influence the spirit of reverence … more than a speaker does.
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Tolerance is a virtue, but like all virtues, when exaggerated, it transforms itself into a vice. We need to be careful of the “tolerance trap” so that we are not swallowed up in it.
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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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This great circle of sisters will be a protection for each of you and for your families. The Relief Society might be likened to a refuge- the place of safety and protection- the sanctuary of ancient times. You will be safe within it. It encircles each sister like a protecting wall.
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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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No service in the Church or in the community transcends that given in the home.
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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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Devotion to the family and devotion to the Church are not different and separate things.
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