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• Love is never wasted, even if it is not reciprocated.

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  Love Is, Ifs

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• When in situations of stress we wonder if there is any more in us to give, we can be comforted to know that God, who knows our capacity perfectly, placed us here to succeed

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  Stress, Giving, Succeed

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• Your task is to conquer yourselves, not ships, lands and castles. This battle is the one in which you especially are to 'come off conqueror.' It is fought every day. In fact, it is a continuing process which commenced a long, long time ago.

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  Land, Long, Battle

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• Looking for honest ways to lift one another would . . . be more beneficial to our own self-esteem, for we would see more good in ourselves. We would cease to be so critical of our weaknesses and would find ways to allow our weaknesses to become strengths with God's help.

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  Honesty, Self Esteem, Weakness

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• God's extraordinary work is most often done by ordinary people in the seeming obscurity of a home and family.

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  Home, People, Ordinary

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• Anger should never be an overnight guest.

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  Anger, Guests, Should

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• Patient endurance permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord and our faith in His timing when we are being tossed about by the surf of circumstance. Even when a seeming undertow grasps us, somehow, in the tumbling, we are being carried forward, though battered and bruised.

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  Endurance, Tumbling, Surf

  Neal A. Maxwell (1991). “Men and Women of Christ”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• In a 'wheat and tares' world, how unusually blessed faithful members are to have the precious and constant gift of the Holy Ghost with reminders of what is right and of the covenants we have made. 'For behold, ... the Holy Ghost ... will show unto you all things what ye should do.' (2 Ne. 32:5.) Whatever the decibels of decadence, these need not overwhelm the still, small voice! Some of the best sermons we will ever hear will be thus prompted from the pulpit of memory—to an audience of one!

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  Memories, Blessed, Voice

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• All crosses are easier to carry when we keep moving.

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  Moving, Adversity, Missionary

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• What we insistently desire, over time, is what we become.

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  Desire

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• To one degree or another we all struggle with selfishness. Since it is so common, why worry about selfishness anyway? Because selfishness is really self-destruction in slow motion. No wonder the Prophet Joseph Smith urged, "Let every selfish feeling be not only buried, but annihilated" (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 178). Hence annihilation - not moderation - is the destination! . . . Meekness is the real cure, for it does not merely mask selfishness but dissolves it!

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  Selfish, Real, Struggle

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• It is one of the ironies of religious history that many mortals err in their understanding of the nature of God and end up rejecting not the real God but their own erroneous and stereotypical image of God. Frequently this is because they have thought of God solely in terms of thunderings at Sinai without pondering substance. . . .

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  Religious, Real, Understanding

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• We can be of so much service to others in many thou-shalt ways. Of course, the problem is that rendering such service takes time, and we are all so busy. Some situations may call for service that somehow seems to be beneath us. Besides, we have other things to do. The thou shalts are so convenient to put off. Who will notice the procrastination anyway? After all, we are not robbing a bank. Or are there forms of withholding that constitute stealing?

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  Procrastination, May, Way

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• How can we truly understand who we are unless we know who we were and what we have the power to become?

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  Who We Are, Knows

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• When the real history of mankind is fully disclosed, will it feature the echoes of gunfire or the shaping sound of lullabies? The great armistices made by military men or the peacemaking of women in homes and in neighborhoods? Will what happened in cradles and kitchens prove to be more controlling than what happened in congresses? When the surf of the centuries has made the great pyramids so much sand, the everlasting family will still be standing, because it is a celestial institution, formed outside telestial time.

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  Military, Real, Home

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• Perfect love is perfectly patient.

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  Inspirational, Patience, Spiritual

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• Ironically, as some people become harder, they use softer words to describe dark deeds. This, too, is part of being sedated by secularism. Needless abortion, for instance, is a "reproductive health procedure, . . ." "Illegitimacy" gives way to the wholly sanitized words "non-marital birth" or "alternative parenting."

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  Dark, People, Giving

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• A good friend, who knows whereof he speaks, has observed of trials, ‘If it’s fair, it is not a true trial!’ That is, without the added presence of some inexplicableness and some irony and injustice, the experience may not stretch us or lift us sufficiently. The crucifixion of Christ was clearly the greatest injustice in human history, but the Savior bore up under it with majesty and indescribable valor.

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  Adversity, Good Friend, Crucifixion Of Christ

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• Pure religion is having the courage to do what is right and let the consequence follow.

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  Courage, Chasms, Pure

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• The "new" in us is bound to notice the "old" that remains.

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  Remains, Bounds

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• Any assessment of where we stand in relationship to Him tells us that we do not stand at all. We kneel.

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  Assessment

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• Do not write a check with your tongue that your actions cannot cash.

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  Inspirational, Writing, Cash

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• Conscience warns us not to sink our cleats too deeply in mortal turf, which is so dangerously artificial.

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  Cleats, Artificial, Turf

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• Even if work were not an economic necessity, it is a spiritual necessity.

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  Spiritual, Work, Economic

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• We can be walking witnesses and standing sermons to which objective onlookers can say a quiet amen.

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  Quiet, Amen, Witness

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