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Young men speak about the future because they have no past, and old men speak of the past because they have no future.

Boyd K. Packer

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
Often, very often, we are punished as much by our sins as we are for them.
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Offended Punish Sins
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
A testimony is a testimony, and it should be respected, whether it is small or large.
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Repeated Should Testimony
Our whole social order could self-destruct over the obsession with freedom disconnected from responsibility; where choice is imagined to be somehow independent of consequences.
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Independent Responsibility Self
Life moves all too fast. When you feel weak, discouraged, depressed, or afraid, open the Book of Mormon and read.
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Book Discourage Moving
You always hold the key of repentance to unlock the prison door. If they throw the word diversity at you, grab hold of it and say, “I am already diverse, and I intend to stay diverse.”
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Doors Integrity Keys
The Spirit is a voice that one feels more than hears.
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Feels Spirit Voice
Behold, he who has repented of his sins, the same is forgiven, and I, the Lord, remember them no more.
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Lord Remember Repented Sin
The permissiveness afforded by the weakening of the laws of the land to tolerate legalized acts of immorality does not reduce the serious spiritual consequence that is the result of the violation of God’s law of chastity.
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Immorality Permissiveness Violation Weakening
Do not ever disturb prelude music for others, for reverence is essential to revelation
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Essentials Prelude Revelations
Despite the opposition, trials, and temptations, you need not fail or fear.
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Needs Temptation Trials
In all that we do in the Church, we need to provide the way, as leaders, for parents and children to have time together as families.
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Children Leader Parent
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
No one of us can survive in the world of today, much less what it will become, without personal inspiration.
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Inspiration Today World
We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see
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Blind Obedient See

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