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Without a knowledge of the gospel plan, transgression seems natural, innocent, even justified.
The atonement of Christ is not just for those who sin. The mercy of Christ encompasses all pain.
Tolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice.
Your secret yearnings and tearful pleadings will touch the heart of both the Father and the Son.
Arms now empty will be filled and hearts now hurting from broken dreams and yearning will be healed.
In or out of marriage, abortion is not an individual choice. At a minimum, three lives are involved.
The purest, most beautiful and appealing experiences of life: romance, love, marriage, and parenthood.
Behold, he who has repented of his sins, the same is forgiven, and I, the Lord, remember them no more.
The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evil.
His judgments are just; His mercy without limit; His power to compensate beyond any earthly comparison.
The gospel stands as true for those who reject it as for those who accept it - both will be judged by it.
Inherent in the ordination to be bishop is both the right and the obligation to be directed by inspiration.
No one of us can survive in the world of today, much less what it will become, without personal inspiration.
In the eternal scheme of things - not always in mortality - righteous yearning and longing will be fulfilled.
If you are burdened with depressing feelings of guilt or disappointment, of failure or shame, there is a cure.
You must know that baptism for someone who is dead is quite as essential as baptism for some one who is living.
No teaching is equal, more spiritually rewarding, or more exalting than that of a mother teaching her children.
The idea that life began with mortal birth is preposterous. There is no way to explain life if you believe that.
Life moves all too fast. When you feel weak, discouraged, depressed, or afraid, open the Book of Mormon and read.
Perhaps no other book has been denounced so vigorously by those who have never read it as has the Book of Mormon.
If our view is limited to mortal life, some things become unbearable because they seem so unfair and so permanent.
There's no credit buying on eternal things, none at all. Anything that is worthwhile has to be paid for in advance.
The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ has the nourishing power to heal starving spirits of the world.
Young men speak about the future because they have no past, and old men speak of the past because they have no future.
Addiction has the capacity to disconnect the human will and nullify moral agency. It can rob one of the power to decide.
If you understand the great plan of happiness and follow it, what goes on in the world will not determine your happiness.
Happiness will depend on what each of us does with what each has, what we learn from what we do, and what we do thereafter.
The study of doctrine and the teaching of doctrine will change behavior more than the study of behavior will change behavior.
I do not think it pleases the Lord when we worry because we think we never do enough or that what we do is never good enough.
Those who choose, conduct, present, and accompany the music may influence the spirit of reverence ... more than a speaker does.
A testimony of the hope of redemption is something which cannot be measured or counted. Jesus Christ is the source of that hope.
If you need a transfusion of spiritual strength then just ask for it. We call that Prayer. Prayer is powerful spiritual medicine.
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.
In all that we do in the Church, we need to provide the way, as leaders, for parents and children to have time together as families.
If you have stumbled or even been lost for a time, you can move forward with faith and not wander to and fro in the world any longer.
He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty" - Lao-tsu One who can control his thoughts has conquered himself.
Repentance is the key with which we can unlock the prison from inside. We hold that key within our hands, and agency is ours to use it.
The Atonement has practical, personal, everyday value; apply it in your life. It can be activated with so simple a beginning as prayer.
There is little to be gained by seeking after the mysteries, for there is hardly time in a lifetime to master the plain and precious things.
Husbands and wives should understand that their first calling-from which they will never be released-is to one another and THEN to their children.
There are many things about living the gospel of Jesus Christ that cannot be measured by that which is counted or charted in records of attendance.
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.
Somewhere there is a message in the protest of the man who said, "You can't tell me that worry doesn't help. The things I worry about never happen."
Our lives are made up of thousands of everyday choices. Over the years these little choices will be bundled together and show clearly what we value.
We are able to feel and learn very quickly through music, through art, through poetry some spiritual things that we would otherwise learn very slowly.
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.
The Restoration began with the prayer of a 14-year-old boy and a vision of the Father and the Son. The dispensation of the fulness of times was ushered in.
Just as chalk can be removed from a chalkboard, with sincere repentance, the effects of our transgression can be erased through the atonement of Jesus Christ.
I hope to be judged as good a man as my father. Before I hear those words "well done" from my Heavenly Father, I hope to first hear them from my mortal father.
One of the adversary's sharpest tools is to convince us that we are no longer worthy to pray. No matter who you are or what you may have done, you can always pray.