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The gospel teaches us to be happy, to have faith rather than fear, to find hope and overcome despair, to leave darkness and turn toward the light of the everlasting gospel.
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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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A testimony of the hope of redemption is something which cannot be measured or counted. Jesus Christ is the source of that hope.
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Peace can be settled in the heart of each who turns to the scriptures and unlocks the promises of protection and redemption that are taught therein.
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Often, very often, we are punished as much by our sins as we are for them.
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Faith is the power, obedience the sacrifice, love the means, Christ the reason.
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The end of all activity in the church is to see that a man and a woman with their children are happy at home, sealed for eternity.
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Family time is sacred time and should be protected and respected.
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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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The power of procreation is not an incidental part of the plan it is the plan of happiness.
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An organist who has the sensitivity to quietly play prelude music from the hymnbook tempers our feelings and causes us to go over in our minds the lyrics which teach the peaceable things of the kingdom. If we will listen, they are teaching the gospel, for the hymns of the Restoration are, in fact, a course in doctrine!
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In or out of marriage, abortion is not an individual choice. At a minimum, three lives are involved.
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What a wonderful time to be young. You will see events in your lifetime that will test your courage and extend your faith. If you will face the sunlight of truth, the shadows of discouragement and sin and error will fall behind you. You must never give up!
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We accept the responsibility to preach the gospel to every person on earth. And if the question is asked, you mean you are out to convert the entire world? The answer is, 'yes'. We will try to reach every living soul.
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We could be like a father determined to provide everything for his family. He devotes every energy to that end and succeeds only then does he discover that what they needed most, to be together as a family, has been neglected. And he reaps sorrow in place of contentment.
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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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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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It has to be an awfully good meeting to beat having no meeting at all.
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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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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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