Happiness will depend on what each of us does with what each has, what we learn from what we do, and what we do thereafter.
BOYD K. PACKERThose who choose, conduct, present, and accompany the music may influence the spirit of reverence … more than a speaker does.
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We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see
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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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Happiness is inseparably connected with decent, clean behavior.
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I have a hard time with historians because they idolize the truth. The truth is not uplifting; it destroys. I could tell most of the secretaries in the church office building that they are ugly and fat. That would be the truth, but it would hurt and destroy them.
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If you stumble, rise up, go on.
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We could be like a father determined to provide everything for his family. He devotes every energy to that end and succeeds; only then does he discover that what they needed most, to be together as a family, has been neglected. And he reaps sorrow in place of contentment.
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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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Historians should tell only that part of the truth that is inspiring and uplifting.
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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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No service in the Church or in the community transcends that given in the home.
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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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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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Just as chalk can be removed from a chalkboard, with sincere repentance, the effects of our transgression can be erased through the atonement of Jesus Christ.
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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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The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ has the nourishing power to heal starving spirits of the world.
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