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No teaching is equal, more spiritually rewarding, or more exalting than that of a mother teaching her children.

Boyd K. Packer

The flak is always the heaviest closest to the target
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Closest Ministry Target
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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Hard Hurt Times Uplifting
Thoughts, like water, will stay on course if we make a place for them to go. As you learn to control your thoughts, you can gain courage, conquer fear and have a happy life.
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Gains Happy Life Water
No pain will last forever. It is not easy, but life was never meant to be either easy or fair. Repentance and the lasting hope that forgiveness brings will always be worth the effort.
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Inspirational Pain Spiritual
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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Convince Done Tools Us
Do not ever disturb prelude music for others, for reverence is essential to revelation
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Essentials Prelude Revelations
Seek worthy companions. Attend church faithfully. Never fail daily to seek for help through prayer. And I promise you that the way will be easier and you shall have a composure of mind and a confident attitude toward life and the future.
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Attitude Life Prayer
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
If you need a transfusion of spiritual strength then just ask for it. We call that Prayer. Prayer is powerful spiritual medicine.
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Powerful Prayer Spiritual Strength
One thing is very clear: the safest place and the best protection against the moral and spiritual diseases is a stable home and family. This has always been true; it will be true forever. We must keep that foremost in our minds.
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Class Home Keep Mind Spiritual
At the temple the dust of distraction seems to settle out, the fog and the haze seem to lift, and we can ‘see’ things that we were not able to see before and find a way through our troubles that we had not previously known.
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Able Distraction Dust Fog Temple
Some things that are true are not very useful.
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Some Thing Useful Very
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
If our view is limited to mortal life, some things become unbearable because they seem so unfair and so permanent.
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Unbearable Unfair Views
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
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
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
I know that God is our Father. He introduced His Son, Jesus Christ, to Joseph Smith. I declare to you that I know that Jesus is the Christ. I know that He lives. He was born in the meridian of time.
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Father Jesus Son
You have that same agency. Use it wisely to deny acting on any impure impulse or unholy temptation that may come into your mind. Just do not go there, and if you are already there, come back out of it. ‘Deny yourselves of all ungodliness’ (Moroni 10:32).
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Already Come Impulse Mind Use
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….Some needlessly carry a heavy burden of guilt which could be removed through confession and repentance.
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Burden heavy Needlessly Please
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
Moral standards cannot be changed by battle and cannot be changed by ballot.
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Bailout Battle Moral Standards
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
There are few things more powerful than the faithful prayers of a righteous mother.
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Inspirational Mother Spiritual
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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Addiction Agency Moral
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
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

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