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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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• If we constantly focus on the stones in our mortal path, we will almost surely miss the beautiful flower or cool stream provided by a loving Father who outlined our journey.

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  Beautiful, Father, Flower

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• May I say to mothers collectively, in the name of the Lord, you are magnificent. You are doing terrifically well. The very fact that you have been given such a responsibility is everlasting evidence of the trust your Father in Heaven has in you.

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  Mother, Father, Responsibility

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• So today we celebrate the gift of victory over every fall we have ever experienced, every sorrow we have ever known, every discouragement we have ever had, every fear we have ever faced-to say nothing of our resurrection from death and forgiveness for our sins. That victory is available to us because of events that transpired on a weekend precisely like this nearly two millennia ago in Jerusalem.

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  Fall, Weekend, Two

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• Along with filters on computers and a lock on affections, remember that the only real control in life is self-control.

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  Real, Self, Filters

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• So be kind, and be grateful that God is kind. It is a happy way to live.

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  Gratitude, Grateful, Way To Live

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• Sadly enough, my young friends, it is a characteristic of our age that if people want any gods at all, they want them to be gods who do not demand much, comfortable gods, smooth gods who not only don't rock the boat but don't even row it, gods who pat us on the head, make us giggle, then tell us to run along and pick marigolds.

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  Running, Rocks, Young Friends

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• Our words, like our deeds, should be filled with faith and hope and charity, the three great Christian imperatives so desperately needed in the world today. With such words, spoken under the influence of the Spirit, tears can be dried, hearts can be healed, lives can be elevated, hope can return, confidence can prevail. ... May we all rejoice in the thought that when we say edifying, encouraging things unto the least of these, our brethren and sisters and little ones, we say it unto God.

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  Christian, Inspiration, Heart

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• There is no convenient Messiah. Salvation comes only through discipline and sacrifice.

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  Sacrifice, Discipline, Salvation

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

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• Our children take their flight into the future with our thrust and with our aim. And even as we anxiously watch that arrow in flight and know all the evils that can deflect its course after is has left our hand, nevertheless we take courage in remembering that the most important factor in determining that arrow's destination will be the stability, strength, and unwavering certainty of the holder of the bow.

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  Children, Hands, Arrows

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• I testify of the renewing power of God's love and the miracle of His grace. His concern is for the faith at which you finally arrive, not the hour of the day in which you got there.

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  Miracle, Grace, Hours

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• Coveting, pouting, or tearing others down does not elevate your standing, nor does demeaning someone else improve your self-image.

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  Self, Doe, Coveting

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• We should honor the Savior's declaration to "be of good cheer." (Matthew 14:27) Indeed, it seems to me we may be more guilty of breaking that commandment than almost any other!

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  Cheer, Honor, May

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• We don't want God to remember our sins, so there is something fundamentally wrong in our relentlessly trying to remember those of others.

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  Trying, Want, Remember

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• Faith is for the future. Faith builds on the past but never longs to stay there. Faith trusts that God has great things in store for each of us and that Christ truly is the “high priest of good things to come” (Hebrews 9:11).

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  Past, Hebrew, Christ

  "The Best Is Yet to Be" by Jeffrey R. Holland, www.lds.org. January 2010.

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• Teach your children that many of the blessings of the Church are available to them because you and they give tithes and offerings to the Church. Teach them that those blessings could come virtually no other way.

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  Children, Blessing, Offering

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• In His own ministry, Jesus did not come to improve God's view of man nearly so much as He came to improve man's view of God and to plead with them to love their Heavenly Father as He has always and will always love them.

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  Jesus, Father, Men

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• If you try your best to be the best parent you can be, you will have done all that a human being can do and all that God expects you to do.

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  Mother, Parent, Trying

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• Live the gospel as conspicuously as you can. Keep the covenants your children know you have made. Give priesthood blessings. And bear your testimony!

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  Children, Blessing, Giving

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• To give ourselves totally to another person, as we do in marriage, is the most trusting step we take in any human relationship.

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  Giving, Steps, Humans

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• I am convinced that missionary work is not easy because salvation is not a cheap experience. Salvation never was easy. We are the Church of Jesus Christ, this is the truth, and He is our Great Eternal Head. How could we believe it would be easy for us when it was never, ever easy for Him?

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  Jesus, Believe, Church

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• I know we can each do something, however small that act may seem to be. We can pay an honest tithe and give our fast and free-will offerings, according to our circumstances. And we can watch for other ways to help.

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  Honesty, Offering, Giving

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• We are making our appearance on the stage of mortality in the greatest dispensation of the gospel ever given to mankind, and we need to make the most of it.

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  Needs, Appearance, Mortality

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• In a world of unrest and fear, political turmoil and moral drift, I testify that Jesus is the Christ—that He is the living Bread and living Water—still, yet, and always the great Shield of safety in our lives.

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  Jesus, Safety, Water

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• Don't delay. It's getting late.

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  Delay, Late

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