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Freedom is an eternal principle. Heaven disapproves of force, coercion and intimidation. Only a free people can be truly a happy people.

Ezra Taft Benson

When you are tempted to look elsewhere for greener pastures, just remember someone else is probably looking at yours. And if another pasture looks greener, perhaps it is getting better care and attention. Grass is always greener . . . where it is watered.
EZRA TAFT BENSON

Better Get Justice Temptation
Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.
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Communication Humility Kids
“On my honor” – what an ennobling phrase! Three short words, nine letters, but the summation of all we call character. From the Boy Scout’s Oath.
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Boy Character Honor Summation
Faith is the foundation upon which a godlike character is built. It is a prerequisite for all other virtues.
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Character Foundation Virtue
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
No man is truly free who is in financial bondage. ‘Think what you do when you run in debt’, said Benjamin Franklin, ‘you give another power over your liberty.’
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Financial Men Religious Run
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
Nothing will surprise us more than when we get to heaven and see the Father and realize how well we know Him and how familiar His face is to us.
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Face Father Heaven Surprise
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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Bless Trial Wickedness
Gods’ payment is the best payment.
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Best God Payment
To be a successful missionary one must have the Spirit of the Lord. We are also taught that the Spirit will not dwell in unclean tabernacles. Therefore, one of the first things a missionary must do to gain spirituality is to make sure his own personal life is in order.
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Missionary Order Successful
The so-called civil rights movement as it exists today is used as a Communist program for revolution in America.
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Country Movement People Right
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
I would rather say whoa to a leader than gittie up.
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Enthusiasm Leader People Say
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
When I think of how we show faith, I cannot help but think of the example of my own father. I recall vividly how the spirit of missionary work came into my life. I was about thirteen years of age when my father received a call to go on a mission.
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Father Thinking Year

Freedom is an eternal principle. Heaven disapproves of force, coercion and intimidation. Only a free people can be truly a happy people.

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Freedom is an eternal principle. Heaven disapproves of force, coercion and intimidation. Only a free people can be truly a happy people.

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