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What would God have me do with my life?

Ezra Taft Benson

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
Records, radio, television, movies, magazines-all are monopolized by the money managers who are guided by one ethic, the words wealth and power.
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Magazine Record Television
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 Lord is pleased with every effort, even the tiny, daily ones in which we strive to be more like Him.
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Effort Lord Please Tiny
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
Godly sorrow is a gift of the Spirit. It is a deep realization that our actions have offended our Father and our God. It is the sharp and keen awareness that our behavior caused the Savior, He who knew no sin, even the greatest of all, to endure agony and suffering.
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Agony Father Godly
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
It is a fundamental truth that the responsibilities of motherhood cannot be successfully delegated. No, not to day-care centers, not to schools, not to nurseries, not to babysitters.
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Motherhood Responsibility School
Take care of yourselves physically. Guard your health carefully. It is one of our greatest blessings. I especially encourage some type of exercise program so you can stay physically fit and physically capable in proportion to the demands on your body.
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Blessing Body Exercise
Our desires, be they spiritual or temporal, should be rooted in a love of the Lord.
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Desire Lord Spiritual
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
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
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
What would God have me do with my life?
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God Happen Life Miracles

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