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One of the trials of life is that we do not usually receive immediately the full blessing for righteousness or the full cursing for wickedness.

Ezra Taft Benson

Gods’ payment is the best payment.
EZRA TAFT BENSON

Best God Payment
Our enmity toward God takes on many labels, such as rebellion, hard-heartedness, stiff-neckedness, unrepentant, puffed up, easily offended, and sign seekers. The proud wish God would agree with them. They aren’t interested in changing their opinions to agree with God’s.
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Offend Wish Proud
I grew up believing that the willingness and ability to work is the basic ingredient of successful farming. Hard, intelligent work is the key. Use it, and your chances for success are good.
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Believe Intelligent Successful
The leisure time of children must be constructively directed to wholesome, positive pursuits. Too much time viewing television can be destructive…It is estimated that growing children today watch television over twenty-five hours per week.
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Children Grow Today
The proud wish God would agree with them. They are not interested in changing their opinions to agree with God’s.
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Offended Opinion Pride Wish
We can and should place special emphasis on developing in our youth constructive incentives — a love of science, engineering, and math, so that they will want to take advanced scientific courses and thereby help meet the needs of our times.
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Engineering Math Technology
Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.
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Communication Humility Kids
If we do not feel like praying, then we should pray until we do feel like praying.
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Bless Divine Feel Praying
I would rather say whoa to a leader than gittie up.
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Enthusiasm Leader People Say
Every man eventually is backed up to the wall of faith, and there he must make his stand.
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Back Eventual Every Men Wall
It is not enough simply to try to resist evil or empty our lives of sin. We must also fill our lives with righteousness
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Evil People Resist Simply Sin Trying
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do a great deal if we choose our goals well and work diligently to attain them.
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Deal Generosity Goal
While you are going through your trial, you can recall your past victories and coul the blessings that you do have with a sure hope of greater ones to allow if you are faithful.
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Blessing Faithful Past
Our desires, be they spiritual or temporal, should be rooted in a love of the Lord.
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Desire Lord Spiritual
Satan works through human agents.
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Agents Humans Satan
We live in a day of slick, quiet and clever sins.
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Clever Quiet Sin

One of the trials of life is that we do not usually receive immediately the full blessing for righteousness or the full cursing for wickedness.

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One of the trials of life is that we do not usually receive immediately the full blessing for righteousness or the full cursing for wickedness.

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