The idea that life began with mortal birth is preposterous. There is no way to explain life if you believe that.
BOYD K. PACKERHusbands 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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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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The atonement of Christ is not just for those who sin. The mercy of Christ encompasses all pain.
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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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Music can set an atmosphere of worship which invites [the] spirit of revelation, of testimony.
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Devotion to the family and devotion to the Church are not different and separate things.
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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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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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Freedom is not a self-preserving gift. It has to be earned, and it has to be protected.
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No teaching is equal, more spiritually rewarding, or more exalting than that of a mother teaching her children.
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The Spirit is a voice that one feels more than hears.
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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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Tolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice.
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Every soul confined in a prison of sin, guilt, or perversion has a key to the gate. The key is labeled “repentance.” If you know how to use this key, the adversary cannot hold you.
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Do you realize how marvelous it is that you can call upon the Atonement? The Lord effected the Atonement for our sakes. And there isn’t anything that you can’t repent from and that you can’t be rescued from if you will repent and be determined to make the decision.
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There are spiritual and physical laws to obey if we are to be happy.
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