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Faith is the foundation upon which a godlike character is built. It is a prerequisite for all other virtues.

Ezra Taft Benson

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
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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Heaven People Principle
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
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
Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the foundation upon which sincere and meaningful repentance must be built. If we truly seek to put away sin, we must first look to Him who is the Author of our salvation.
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First Jesus Meaningful
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
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
Gods’ payment is the best payment.
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Best God Payment
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
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 live in a day of slick, quiet and clever sins.
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Clever Quiet Sin
Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.
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Communication Humility Kids
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
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
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
Humility does not mean weakness. It does not mean timidity. It does not mean fear. A man can be humble and fearless. A man can be humble and courageous.
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Humble Humility Mean
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
Fatherhood is not a matter of station or wealth; it is a matter of desire, diligence, and determination to see one’s family exalted in the celestial kingdom. If that prize is lost, nothing else really matters.
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Desire Determination Fatherhood
Satan works through human agents.
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Agents Humans Satan
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
If you really want to receive joy and happiness, then serve others with all your heart. Lift their burden, and your own burden will be lighter.
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Heart Joy Want
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
Our desires, be they spiritual or temporal, should be rooted in a love of the Lord.
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Desire Lord Spiritual
We will not know Him, until we become like him.
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Becme Country Know People
A father’s calling is eternal and its importance transcends time. It is a calling for both time and eternity.
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Calling Eternity Father
Without goals our efforts may be scattered and unproductive.
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Effort Goal May Unproductive
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

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