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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.

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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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Men Messages Worry
Some people think a miracle is only a miracle if it happens instantaneously, but miracles can grow slowly and patience and faith can compel things to happen that otherwise never would have come to pass.
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Faith People Thinking
The end of all activity in the church is to see that a man and a woman with their children are happy at home, sealed for eternity.
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Children Home Men
Progression: you can start from where you are.
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Country Place Progression Start
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
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
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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Demanding Justice Learning Life Order
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
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
It has to be an awfully good meeting to beat having no meeting at all.
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Beats Meetings
If you are burdened with depressing feelings of guilt or disappointment, of failure or shame, there is a cure.
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Depressing Disappointment Feelings
Teach our members that if they have a good, miserable day once in a while, or several in a row, to stand steady and face them. Things will straighten out. There is great purpose in our struggle in life.
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Good Member Purpose Straighten Struggle
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
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
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
What a wonderful time to be young. You will see events in your lifetime that will test your courage and extend your faith. If you will face the sunlight of truth, the shadows of discouragement and sin and error will fall behind you. You must never give up!
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Event Faith Give Up Test Time Truth

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.

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