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• The study of doctrine and the teaching of doctrine will change behavior more than the study of behavior will change behavior.

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  Teaching, Doctrine, Study

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• You always hold the key of repentance to unlock the prison door. If they throw the word diversity at you, grab hold of it and say, "I am already diverse, and I intend to stay diverse." If the word is tolerance, grab that one, too, saying, "I expect you to be tolerant of my lifestyle-obedience, integrity, abstinence, repentance." If the word is choice, tell them you choose good, old-fashioned morality.

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  Integrity, Doors, Keys

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• Teaching some things that are true, prematurely or at the wrong time, can invite sorrow and heartbreak instead of the joy intended to accompany learning.... The scriptures teach emphatically that we must give milk before meat. The Lord made it very clear that some things are to be taught selectively and some things are to be given only to those who are worthy.

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  Teaching, Giving, Joy

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• 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.

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  Jesus, Atonement, Christ

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• The ultimate purpose of every teaching, every activity in the Church is that parents and their children are happy at home, sealed in an eternal marriage, and linked to their generations.

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  Children, Teaching, Home

  Boyd K. Packer (1998). “The shield of faith”, Bookcraft, Incorporated

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• A testimony is a testimony, and it should be respected, whether it is small or large.

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  Should, Testimony

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• In many places it is literally not safe physically for youngsters to go to school. And in many schools, and its becoming almost generally true, it is spiritually unsafe to attend public schools. Look back over the history of education to the turn of the century and the beginning of the educational philosophies, pragmatism and humanism were the early ones, and they branched out into a number of other philosophies which have led us now into a circumstance where our schools are producing the problems that we face.

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  Philosophy, Educational, School

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• Things we cannot solve, we must survive.

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  Adversity, Survival, Solve

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• An organist who has the sensitivity to quietly play prelude music from the hymnbook tempers our feelings and causes us to go over in our minds the lyrics which teach the peaceable things of the kingdom. If we will listen, they are teaching the gospel, for the hymns of the Restoration are, in fact, a course in doctrine!

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  Music, Teaching, Play

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• Largely because of television, instead of looking over into that spacious building, we are, in effect, living inside of it. That is your fate in this generation. You are living in that great and spacious building.

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  Fate, Balance, This Generation

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• I bear witness of the power of the priesthood given to the Church to protect us and guide us. And because we have that, we have no fear of the future. Fear is the opposite of faith. We move forward, certain that the Lord will watch over us, particularly in the family.

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  Moving, Opposites, Church

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• There is a temptation for the writer or the teacher of Church history to want to tell everything, whether it is worthy or faith promoting or not. Some things that are true are not very useful.

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  Teacher, Scary, Temptation

  "The Mantle Is Far, Far Greater Than the Intellect" by Boyd K. Packer, www.lds.org. 2004.

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• Keep the fire of your testimony of the restored gospel and your witness of our Redeemer burning so brightly that our children can warm their hands by the fire of your faith.

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  Children, Fire, Hands

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• The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evil.

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  Evil, Choices, Accountability

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• Tolerance is a virtue, but like all virtues, when exaggerated, it transforms itself into a vice. We need to be careful of the “tolerance trap” so that we are not swallowed up in it. The permissiveness afforded by the weakening of the laws of the land to tolerate legalized acts of immorality does not reduce the serious spiritual consequence that is the result of the violation of God’s law of chastity.

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  Spiritual, Law, Land

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• To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal.

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  Disappointment, Anxiety, Suffering

  Boyd K. Packer (1982). “That All May be Edified: Talks, Sermons & Commentary”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• Life moves all too fast. When you feel weak, discouraged, depressed, or afraid, open the Book of Mormon and read.

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  Moving, Book, Discouraged

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• Some suffer from real misfortunes. Sadly, others only imagine that they do.

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  Real, Suffering, Imagine

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• Seek worthy companions. Attend church faithfully. Never fail daily to seek for help through prayer. And I promise you that the way will be easier and you shall have a composure of mind and a confident attitude toward life and the future. You shall be warned of dangers and shall be guided through the whisperings of the Holy Spirit.

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  Life, Prayer, Attitude

  Boyd K. Packer (1998). “The shield of faith”, Bookcraft, Incorporated

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• Your secret yearnings and tearful pleadings will touch the heart of both the Father and the Son.

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  Inspirational, Spiritual, Father

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• No pain will last forever. It is not easy, but life was never meant to be either easy or fair. Repentance and the lasting hope that forgiveness brings will always be worth the effort.

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  Inspirational, Spiritual, Pain

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• Throughout your life there may be times when you have gone places you never should have gone and done things you never should have done. If you will turn away from sin, you will be able one day to know the peace that comes from following the pathway of complete repentance.

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  Should Have, One Day, Pathways

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• You may in time of trouble think that you are not worth saving because you have made mistakes, big or little, and you think you are now lost. That is never true! Only repentance can heal what hurts. But repentancecan heal what hurts, no matter what it is.

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  Hurt, Mistake, Thinking

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• Everyone is tested. One might think it is unfair to be singled out and subjected to a particular temptation, but this is the purpose of mortal life—to be tested. And the answer is the same for everyone: we must, and we can, resist temptations of any kind.

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  Thinking, Temptation, Purpose

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• Despite the opposition, trials, and temptations, you need not fail or fear.

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  Temptation, Needs, Trials

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