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Husbands and wives should understand that their first calling-from which they will never be released-is to one another and then to their children.

Boyd K. Packer

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
This shield of faith is best fabricated in a cottage industry. While the shield can be polished in classes in the Church and in activities, it is meant to be handcrafted in the home and fitted to each individual.
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Each Individual Fabricated Faith
We were given our agency. We must use it wisely and remain close to the Spirit; otherwise, we foolishly find ourselves yielding to the enticements of the adversary.
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Agency Enticements Otherwise Spirit Use
Our lives are made up of thousands of everyday choices. Over the years these little choices will be bundled together and show clearly what we value.
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Choices Everyday Years
There is a falsehood that some are born with an attraction to their own kind, with nothing they can do about it. They are just ‘that way’ and can only yield to those desires. That is a malicious and destructive lie. While it is a convincing idea to some, it is of the devil.
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Father Husband Lying
The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evil.
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Accountability Fame Choices Evil Fortune Poverty
Like most things of great worth, knowledge which is of eternal value comes only through personal prayer and pondering.
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Fasting Prayer Whispering
There is little to be gained by seeking after the mysteries, for there is hardly time in a lifetime to master the plain and precious things.
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Lifetime Littles Mystery
Mature love has a bliss not even imagined by newlyweds.
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Bliss Mature Love Newlyweds
The 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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Children Father Mother
The Restoration began with the prayer of a 14-year-old boy and a vision of the Father and the Son. The dispensation of the fulness of times was ushered in.
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Father Prayer Son
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
Despite the opposition, trials, and temptations, you need not fail or fear.
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Needs Temptation Trials
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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Goes On Salvation Understand World
The answer is the same for everyone: we must, and we can, resist temptations of any kind.
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Answers Kind Temptation
There are spiritual and physical laws to obey if we are to be happy.
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Happy Law Physical Spiritual

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