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We have moral agency as a gift of God. Rather than the right to choose to be free of influence, it is the inalienable right to submit ourselves to whichever of those powers we choose.

Henry B. Eyring

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Henry B. Eyring
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: May 31
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Physicist
Priest
Princeton
New Jersey
Henry Bennion Eyring
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Inalienable
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Whichever
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Jesus Christ is the light and the life of the world. If we do not choose to move toward Him, we will find that we have moved away ... Whether or not you choose to keep your covenant to always remember Him, He always remembers you.
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The Lord's way to help those in temporal need requires people who out of love have consecrated themselves and what they have to God and to His work.
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One of the surest ways to avoid even getting near false doctrine is to choose to be simple in our teaching.
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When tragedy strikes, or even when it looms, our families will have the opportunity to look into our hearts to see whether we know what we said we knew. Our children will watch, feel the Spirit confirm that we lived as we preached, remember that confirmation, and pass the story across the generations.
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As you pray and serve others, your knowledge that you are a child of God and your feelings about Him will grow.
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Heavenly Father hears your prayers, He loves you. He knows your name. He loves you beyond your ability to comprehend.
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Every child of Heavenly Father born in the world is given at birth, as a free gift, the Light of Christ.
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The Lord will always prepare a way for you to escape from the trials you will be given if you understand two things. One is that you need to be on the Lord's errand. The second thing you need to understand is that the escape will almost never be out of the trial it will usually be through it.
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The ideal God holds for us is to form families in the way most likely to lead to happiness and away from sorrow.
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Choose to obey the Lord quickly, always, in quiet times and in storms. As we do, our faith will be strengthened, we will find peace in this life, and we will gain the assurance that we and our families can qualify for eternal life in the world to come.
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By helping others come unto Him, you will find that you have come unto Him yourself
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You can give a great and wonderful Christmas if you remember the gifts God has given you and, as best you can, offer them to others as He would. That is the spirit of Christmas and of true happiness every day.
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The Book of Mormon is another testament of Jesus Christ, and we learn about Him in its pages. We know that it has great power. It has the power to change lives. It has the power to convert. If you read it with an open heart, you will know that it is the word of God and that it is true.
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The pavilion that seems to intercept divine aid does not cover God but occasionally covers us. God is never hidden, yet sometimes we are, covered by a pavilion of motivations that draw us away from God and make Him seem distant and inaccessible.
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