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No service in the Church or in the community transcends that given in the home.

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Without a knowledge of the gospel plan, transgression seems natural, innocent, even justified.
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The rapid, sweeping deterioration of values is characterized by a preoccupation-even an obsession-with the procreative act. Abstinence before marriage and fidelity within it are openly scoffed at-marriage and parenthood ridiculed as burdensome, unnecessary. Modesty, a virtue of a refined individual or society, is all but gone.
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We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see.
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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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We are not free to break our covenants and escape the consequences.
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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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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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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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Your secret yearnings and tearful pleadings will touch the heart of both the Father and the Son.
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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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Faith is a real power, not just an expression of belief.
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There are few things more powerful than the faithful prayers of a righteous mother.
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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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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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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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His judgments are just His mercy without limit His power to compensate beyond any earthly comparison.
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The idea that life began with mortal birth is preposterous. There is no way to explain life if you believe that.
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No teaching is equal, more spiritually rewarding, or more exalting than that of a mother teaching her children.
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Mature love has a bliss not even imagined by newlyweds.
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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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