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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.

Boyd K. Packer

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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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I have a hard time with historians because they idolize the truth. The truth is not uplifting it destroys. I could tell most of the secretaries in the church office building that they are ugly and fat. That would be the truth, but it would hurt and destroy them. Historians should tell only that part of the truth that is inspiring and uplifting.
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The ultimate purpose of every teaching, every activity in the Church is that parents and their children are happy at home, sealed in an eternal marriage, and linked to their generations.
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The power of procreation is not an incidental part of the plan it is the plan of happiness.
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If prayer is to leave the public schools, let the ridicule of prayer leave also.
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The spiritually starving hesitate to partake of the Spirit like a child's reaction to new and strange food. They must be offered a tiny bite on a spoon.
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Your responsibility as a father and a husband transcends any other interest in life.
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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 Lord will bless us as we attend to the sacred ordinance work of the temples. Blessings there will not be limited to our temple service. We will be blessed in all of our affairs.
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Perhaps no other book has been denounced so vigorously by those who have never read it as has the Book of Mormon.
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One who can control his thoughts has conquered himself.
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How grateful we are for you, our youth.
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We are not free to break our covenants and escape the consequences.
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You cannot force spiritual things. A testimony is not thrust upon you it grows. And a testimony is a testimony, and it should be respected, whether it is small or large. We become taller in our testimony like we grow in physical stature and hardly know it is happening, because it comes by growth.
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Do you realize how marvelous it is that you can call upon the Atonement? The Lord effected the Atonement for our sakes. And there isn’t anything that you can’t repent from and that you can’t be rescued from if you will repent and be determined to make the decision.
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The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evil.
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Seek worthy companions. Attend church faithfully. Never fail daily to seek for help through prayer. And I promise you that the way will be easier and you shall have a composure of mind and a confident attitude toward life and the future. You shall be warned of dangers and shall be guided through the whisperings of the Holy Spirit.
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An unusual thing happened after that great first vision. The Prophet Joseph received no additional communication for three years. However, he did not wonder, he did not question, he did not doubt the Lord. The Prophet Joseph patiently waited. The Prophet Joseph taught us the principle of patience-by example.
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Those who choose, conduct, present, and accompany the music may influence the spirit of reverence ... more than a speaker does.
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There is a temptation for the writer or the teacher of Church history to want to tell everything, whether it is worthy or faith promoting or not. Some things that are true are not very useful.
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