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• The plague of pornography is swirling about us as never before. Pornography brings a vicious wake of immorality, broken homes, and broken lives. Pornography will sap spiritual strength to endure. Pornography is much like quicksand. You can become so easily trapped and overcome as soon as you step into it that you do not realize the severe danger. Most likely you will need assistance to get out of the quicksand of pornography. But how much better it is never to step into it. I plead with you to be careful and cautious.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Spiritual, Home, Broken

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• We should be patient in developing and strengthening our testimonies. Rather than expecting immediate or spectacular manifestations, though they will come when needed, we should pray for a testimony, study the scriptures, follow the counsel of our prophet and other Church leaders, and live the principles of the gospel. Our testimonies then will grow and mature naturally, perhaps imperceptibly at times, until they become driving forces in our lives.

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  Leader, Church, Scripture

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• All too often a family’s spending is governed more by their yearning than by their earning. They somehow believe that their life will be better if they surround themselves with an abundance of things. All too often all they are left with is avoidable anxiety and distress

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  Religious, Believe, Anxiety

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• Love is the beginning, the middle, and the end of the pathway of discipleship. It comforts, counsels, cures, and consoles. It leads us through valleys of darkness and through the veil of death. In the end love leads us to the glory and grandeur of eternal life.

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  Love Is, Darkness, Pathways

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• There is no defeat except for those who give up.

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  Success, Sports, Giving Up

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• Our Father in Heaven does not wish us to cower. He does not want us to wallow in our misery. He expects us to square our shoulders, roll up our sleeves, and overcome our challenges.

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  Father, Squares, Heaven

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• The Lord is well aware of our mortality. He knows our weaknesses. He understands the challenges of our everyday lives. He has great empathy for the temptations of earthly appetites and passions.

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  Passion, Empathy, Temptation

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• There is no real joy that does not involve self-denial and self-discipline

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  Real, Self, Discipline

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• Charity must become a fundamental state of mind and heart that guides us in all we do.

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  Heart, Mind, Fundamentals

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• If we only look around us, there are a thousand reasons for us not to be happy, and it is simplicity itself to blame our unhappiness on the things we lack in life. It doesn’t take any talent at all to find them. The problem is, the more we focus on the things we don’t have, the more unhappy and more resentful we become.

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  Focus, Simplicity, Unhappy

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• Perfection is worth striving for, even if it is ultimately unattainable in this life.

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  Perfection, Unattainable, Strive

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• I believe that many people are unhappy because they have not learned to be grateful. Some carry the burden of bitterness and resentfulness for many years. Some pass their days as though suffering a deep sadness they cannot name. Others are unhappy because life didn’t turn out the way they thought it would.

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  Believe, Grateful, Sadness

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• I have had the opportunity to become acquainted with many wonderful people from many walks of life. I have known rich and poor, famous and modest, wise and otherwise.

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  Wise, Opportunity, People

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• Lying, stealing, and cheating are commonplace.

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  Cheating, Lying, Stealing

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• The place to cure most of the ills of society is in the homes of the people.

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  Family, Home, People

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• Another activity that can detract us from the proper way is watching television excessively or viewing improper movies. While fine productions on these media are uplifting and entertaining, we need to be very selective in choosing what we see and how much of our time such an activity deserves. Our precious time must not be diverted to the sideline attractions of vulgar language, immoral conduct, pornography, and violence.

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  Uplifting, Media, Television

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• As we give of our time, talents and resources to tend the needs of the sick, offer food to the hungry and teach the dependent to stand on their own, we enrich ourselves spiritually beyond our ability to comprehend.

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  Helping Others, Giving, Sick

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• The truths of the gospel do not change. If you will follow the Christ, follow his prophet, and follow his Spirit, you will always choose the right. As a result of your wise choices, your testimony will grow stronger, and great blessings of joy, happiness, and peace will be yours.

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  Wise, Blessing, Joy

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• Lambs have little chance to follow the right path if the shepherds go astray.

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  Shepherds, Example, Lambs

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• There is a form of communication that transcends the power of words.

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  Attitude, Communication, Power Of Words

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• You should look ahead now and decide what you want to do with your lives. Fix clearly in your mind what you want to be one year from now, five years, ten years, and beyond. Write your goals and review them regularly. Keep them before you constantly, record your progress, and revise them as circumstances dictate.

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  Writing, Years, Generosity

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• Our integrity determines what we really are.

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  Integrity, Determine

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• As with the butterfly, adversity is necessary to build character in people. As you overcome adversity in your life, you will become stronger.

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  Butterfly, Character, Adversity

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• I believe that perseverance is vital to success in any endeavor, whether spiritual or temporal, large or small, public or personal. . . . All significant achievement results largely from perseverance.

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  Spiritual, Perseverance, Believe

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• Nephi taught that by clinging to the word of God, as though it be a handrail, we would be able to avoid temptations and not lose our way in darkness. Thus, we would remain on the narrow path.

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  Temptation, Darkness, Would Be

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