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Faith is a real power, not just an expression of belief.

Boyd K. Packer

No teaching is equal, more spiritually rewarding, or more exalting than that of a mother teaching her children.
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Children Mother Teaching
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
The gift of the Holy Ghost operates equally with men, women, and even little children. It is within this wondrous gift and power that the spiritual remedy to any problem can be found.
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Children Men Spiritual
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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Afterward Discovery Greatest Learn Scriptures
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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Individual Lord Love Ought You
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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Certified Edge Everything Faith
There are spiritual and physical laws to obey if we are to be happy.
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Happy Law Physical Spiritual
Happiness is inseparably connected with decent, clean behavior.
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Behavior Clean Decent
The atonement of Christ is not just for those who sin. The mercy of Christ encompasses all pain.
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Atonement Crise Pain Sin
He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty” – Lao-tsu One who can control his thoughts has conquered himself.
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Conquer Laos Strong
If our view is limited to mortal life, some things become unbearable because they seem so unfair and so permanent.
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Unbearable Unfair Views
Often, very often, we are punished as much by our sins as we are for them.
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Offended Punish Sins
Fear is the opposite of faith. We move forward, certain that the Lord will watch over us, particularly in the family.
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Family Fear Particular
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
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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Advance Buying Credit Financial Paid Worthwide
Moral standards cannot be changed by battle and cannot be changed by ballot.
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Bailout Battle Moral Standards

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