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Parents are with their children almost constantly and can observe when they are ready to be instructed. From questions or behavior or because of experiences in their own lives, they can sense that it is time to teach. Parents must know when the time for the lesson is now, right now, for their children are ready for it.
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Arms now empty will be filled and hearts now hurting from broken dreams and yearning will be healed.
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Family time is sacred time and should be protected and respected.
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Freedom is not a self-preserving gift. It has to be earned, and it has to be protected.
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Ordinances and covenants become our credentials for admission into His presence. To worthily receive them is the quest of a lifetime to keep them thereafter is the challenge of mortality.
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Dispute not because ye see not, for ye receive no witness until after the trial of your faith.
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The gospel stands as true for those who reject it as for those who accept it - both will be judged by it.
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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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The Atonement has practical, personal, everyday value apply it in your life. It can be activated with so simple a beginning as prayer.
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The guilt that accompanies mistakes can be washed away.
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It was meant to be that life would be a challenge. To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal. Teach our members that if they have a good, miserable day once in a while, or several in a row, to stand steady and face them. Things will straighten out. There is great purpose in our struggle in life.
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We are not free to break our covenants and escape the consequences.
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There is also an age-old excuse: “The devil made me do it.” Not so! He can deceive you and mislead you, but he does not have the power to force you or anyone else to transgress or to keep you in transgression.
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Young men speak about the future because they have no past, and old men speak of the past because they have no future.
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Devotion to the family and devotion to the Church are not different and separate things.
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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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Your responsibility as a father and a husband transcends any other interest in life.
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The ultimate effort of everything in the Church is to the end that a father and a mother and their children can be happy at home. If they are happy at home, they are spiritually prepared for whatever should be ahead of them in the world.
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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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Often, very often, we are punished as much by our sins as we are for them.
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