Repentance is the key with which we can unlock the prison from inside. We hold that key within our hands, and agency is ours to use it.
BOYD K. PACKERThe ultimate effort of everything in the Church is to the end that a father and a mother and their children can be happy at home. If they are happy at home, they are spiritually prepared for whatever should be ahead of them in the world.
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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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There are spiritual and physical laws to obey if we are to be happy.
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You ought to know that the Lord loves you. He will make that known to you, and it will be a very private and individual experience, something you cannot explain to anyone else.
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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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Addiction has the capacity to disconnect the human will and nullify moral agency. It can rob one of the power to decide.
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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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The gospel stands as true for those who reject it as for those who accept it – both will be judged by it.
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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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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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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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The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evil.
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A testimony is a testimony, and it should be respected, whether it is small or large.
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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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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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Music can set an atmosphere of worship which invites [the] spirit of revelation, of testimony.
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