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If you are burdened with depressing feelings of guilt or disappointment, of failure or shame, there is a cure.

The word discipline sometimes touches a slightly rebellious chord in our natures. Remember that it comes from the word disciple.

Your responsibility as a father and a husband transcends any other interest in life.

We are able to feel and learn very quickly through music, through art, through poetry some spiritual things that we would otherwise learn very slowly.

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

Addiction has the capacity to disconnect the human will and nullify moral agency. It can rob one of the power to decide.

A testimony of the hope of redemption is something which cannot be measured or counted. Jesus Christ is the source of that hope.

There's no credit buying on eternal things, none at all. Anything that is worthwhile has to be paid for in advance.

Inherent in the ordination to be bishop is both the right and the obligation to be directed by inspiration.

In the eternal scheme of things - not always in mortality - righteous yearning and longing will be fulfilled.

Faith is the power, obedience the sacrifice, love the means, Christ the reason.

Our lives are made up of thousands of everyday choices. Over the years these little choices will be bundled together and show clearly what we value.

No teaching is equal, more spiritually rewarding, or more exalting than that of a mother teaching her children.

There is little to be gained by seeking after the mysteries, for there is hardly time in a lifetime to master the plain and precious things.

The scriptures hold the keys to spiritual protection.

Freedom is not a self-preserving gift. It has to be earned, and it has to be protected.

Reverence invites Revelation

Hit the 'delete' button when you have unrighteous thoughts.

Family time is sacred time and should be protected and respected.

Arms now empty will be filled and hearts now hurting from broken dreams and yearning will be healed.

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

If you need a transfusion of spiritual strength then just ask for it. We call that Prayer. Prayer is powerful spiritual medicine.

The gospel stands as true for those who reject it as for those who accept it - both will be judged by it.

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

In all that we do in the Church, we need to provide the way, as leaders, for parents and children to have time together as families.

Fear is the opposite of faith

The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ has the nourishing power to heal starving spirits of the world.

Christ's mercy is the mighty healer; even to the wounded innocent.

The idea that life began with mortal birth is preposterous. There is no way to explain life if you believe that.

No one of us can survive in the world of today, much less what it will become, without personal inspiration.

It has to be an awfully good meeting to beat having no meeting at all.

Things we cannot solve, we must survive.

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

Punctuality is an essential trait of the teacher. It is a foundation, not an embellishment.

You must know that baptism for someone who is dead is quite as essential as baptism for some one who is living.

The atonement of Christ is not just for those who sin. The mercy of Christ encompasses all pain.

Happiness will depend on what each of us does with what each has, what we learn from what we do, and what we do thereafter.

Peace can be settled in the heart of each who turns to the scriptures and unlocks the promises of protection and redemption that are taught therein.

Dispute not because ye see not, for ye receive no witness until after the trial of your faith.

Take hold of your life and order yourself to be valiant.

Don't live so that your children go unled because of habits that leave you uninspired.

Obedience is a powerful spiritual medicine. It comes close to being a cure-all.

Perhaps no other book has been denounced so vigorously by those who have never read it as has the Book of Mormon.

Happily ever after never happens in the second act.

Music can set an atmosphere of worship which invites [the] spirit of revelation, of testimony.

I have come to know that faith is a real power, not just an expression of belief.

Repentance is the key with which we can unlock the prison from inside. We hold that key within our hands, and agency is ours to use it.

We are not free to break our covenants and escape the consequences.

Without a knowledge of the gospel plan, transgression seems natural, innocent, even justified.

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

How grateful we are for you, our youth.

If you stumble, rise up, go on.

There are spiritual and physical laws to obey if we are to be happy.

The Spirit is a voice that one feels more than hears.

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

Happiness is inseparably connected with decent, clean behavior.

No service in the Church or in the community transcends that given in the home.

The Atonement has practical, personal, everyday value; apply it in your life. It can be activated with so simple a beginning as prayer.

The end of all activity in the church is to see that a man and a woman with their children are happy at home, sealed for eternity.

Behold, he who has repented of his sins, the same is forgiven, and I, the Lord, remember them no more.

However common irreverence and profanity become, they are nonetheless wrong

There are many things about living the gospel of Jesus Christ that cannot be measured by that which is counted or charted in records of attendance.

Devotion to the family and devotion to the Church are not different and separate things.

The flak is always the heaviest closest to the target

Mature love has a bliss not even imagined by newlyweds.

If prayer is to leave the public schools, let the ridicule of prayer leave also.

I do not think it pleases the Lord when we worry because we think we never do enough or that what we do is never good enough.

In or out of marriage, abortion is not an individual choice. At a minimum, three lives are involved.

Most of what we acquire materially is found to not be worth what we must pay spiritually.

Progression: you can start from where you are.

If our view is limited to mortal life, some things become unbearable because they seem so unfair and so permanent.

If you understand the great plan of happiness and follow it, what goes on in the world will not determine your happiness.

His judgments are just; His mercy without limit; His power to compensate beyond any earthly comparison.

The purest, most beautiful and appealing experiences of life: romance, love, marriage, and parenthood.

Moral standards cannot be changed by battle and cannot be changed by ballot.

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

Often, very often, we are punished as much by our sins as we are for them.

Somewhere there is a message in the protest of the man who said, "You can't tell me that worry doesn't help. The things I worry about never happen."

Do not ever disturb prelude music for others, for reverence is essential to revelation

If you have stumbled or even been lost for a time, you can move forward with faith and not wander to and fro in the world any longer.

Prayer is your personal key to heaven.

Young men speak about the future because they have no past, and old men speak of the past because they have no future.

Nowhere are the generosity and the kindness and mercy of God more manifest than in repentance.

Those who choose, conduct, present, and accompany the music may influence the spirit of reverence ... more than a speaker does.

Our competition in life is solely with our old self.

The power of procreation is not an incidental part of the plan; it is the plan of happiness.