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• Somebody like you taught somebody like me.

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  Taught, Like You, Like Me

  "Teaching and Learning in the Church". www.lds.org. June, 2007.

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• What is the best that lies within us? Of how much are we capable? None of us yet knows. An old Arabic legend tells of a rider finding a spindly sparrow lying on its back in the middle of the road. He dismounted and asked the sparrow why his feet were in the air. Replied the sparrow, "I heard the heavens were going to fall today." "And I suppose you think your puny bird legs can hold up the whole universe?" laughed the horseman. "Perhaps not," said the sparrow with conviction, "but one does whatever one can.

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  Lying, Fall, Thinking

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• Believe that your faith has everything to do with your romance, because it does.

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  Inspirational, Spiritual, Believe

  “How Do I Love Thee?” devotional address, Brigham Young University, www.lds.org. February 15, 2000.

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• Be strong. Live the gospel faithfully even if others around you don’t live it at all.

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  Strong, Ifs

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• We are not diminished when someone else is added upon.

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• My own great-grandfather, who said simply enough, "No wicked man could write such a book as this; and no good man would write it unless it were true and he were commanded of God to do so.

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  Book, Writing, Men

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• He has, He reminds us, "graven thee upon the palms of my hands" (1 Nephi 21:16). Considering the incomprehensible cost of the Crucifixion, Christ is not going to turn His back on us now.

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  Hands, Cost, Christ

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• It is not possible for you to sink lower than the infinite light of Christ's Atonement shines.

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  Light, Shining, Atonement

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• Life has its share of fears and failures. Sometimes things fall short. Sometimes people fail us, or economies or businesses or governments fail us. But one thing in time or eternity does not fail us-the pure love of Christ.

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  Fall, Government, People

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• The search for peace is one of the ultimate quests of the human soul.

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  Soul, Quests, Humans

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• When you are confronted with challenges that are difficult to conquer or you have questions arise, the answers to which you do not know, hold fast to the things you do know. Hang on to your firmest foundation, however limited that may be, and from that position of strength face the unknown.

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  Challenges, Foundation, Answers

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• We must not pull away from our children. We must keep trying, keep reaching, keep praying, keep listening. We must keep them within the clasp of our arms.

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  Children, Listening, Trying

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• If you have made covenants, keep them. If you haven’t made them, make them. If you have made them and broken them, repent and repair them. It is never too late so long as the Master of the vineyard says there is time. Please listen to the prompting of the Holy Spirit telling you right now, this very moment, that you should accept the atoning gift of the Lord Jesus Christ and enjoy the fellowship of His labor. Don’t delay. It’s getting late.

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  Jesus, Long, Broken

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• Patiently enduring some things is part of our mortal education.

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  Endure, Mortals

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• HAPPINESS comes first by what comes into your head a long time before material BLESSINGS come into your hand.

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  Blessing, Hands, Long

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• Perhaps no more beautiful passages have ever been written about the Savior's atonement and crucifixion than those written by Isaiah.

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  Beautiful, Atonement, Savior

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• God seeks for your individual happiness above all other godly concerns.

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  Godly, Individual Happiness, Individual

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• I especially wish to praise and encourage young mothers. The work of a mother is hard, too often unheralded work... Do the best you can through these years, but whatever else you do, cherish that role that is so uniquely yours and for which heaven itself sends angels to watch over you and your little ones.

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  Mother, Angel, Years

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• Faith draws the poison from every grief, takes the sting from every loss, and quenches the fire of every pain, and only faith can do it.

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  Faith, Pain, Grief

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• On that very night, the night of the greatest suffering that has ever taken place in the world or that ever will take place, the Savior said, "Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you... Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid." (John 14:27) I submit to you, that may be one of the Savior's commandments that is, even in the hearts of otherwise faithful Latter-day Saints, almost universally disobeyed; and yet I wonder whether our resistance to this invitation could be any more grievous to the Lord's merciful heart.

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  Taken, Heart, Night

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• There is a line from Dante that says, "The arrow seen before cometh less rudely." President John F. Kennedy put one aspect of the same thought into one of his state of the union messages this way: "The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining." The Boy Scouts say it best of all: "Be prepared." That isn't just cracker-barrel wisdom with us; it is theology. "If ye are prepared ye shall not fear." (D&C 38:30)

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  Time, Fear, Boys

  Jeffrey R. Holland (1985). “However Long and Hard the Road”, Deseret Book Co

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• God loves us. He is good, He is our Father, and He expects us to pray, and to trust and be believing, and not give up, and not panic, and not retreat, when something doesn't seem to be going just right.

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  Giving Up, Father, Believe

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• A noble deed is a step toward God.

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  Noble, Deeds, Steps

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• True love BLOOMS when we care more about another person than we care about ourselves.

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  Care, Persons

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• Trust in God. Hold on to His love. Know that one day the dawn will break brightly and all shadows of mortality will flee.

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  Shadow, One Day, Dawn

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