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- Godly sorrow is a gift of the Spirit. It is a deep realization that our actions have offended our Father and our God. It is…
- Our enmity toward God takes on many labels, such as rebellion, hard-heartedness, stiff-neckedness, unrepentant, puffed up, easily offended, and sign seekers. The proud wish God…
- Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the foundation upon which sincere and meaningful repentance must be built. If we truly seek to put away…
- Would we not do well to have the pleasing of God as our motive rather than to try to elevate ourselves above our brother and…
- Daily, constantly, we choose by our desires, our thoughts, and our actions whether we want to be blessed or cursed, happy or miserable.
- Prayer in the hour of need is a great boon. From simple trials to our Gethsemanes, prayer - persistent prayer - can put us in…
- Our desires, be they spiritual or temporal, should be rooted in a love of the Lord.
- Our mothers put God first when they fill their highest mission within the walls of their own homes.
- Pride is essentially competitive in nature. We pit our will against God's.
- Since the beginning, a woman's first and most important role has been ushering into mortality spirit sons and daughters of our Father in Heaven.
- The earth was cursed for Adam's sake. Work is our blessing, not our doom. God has a work to do, and so should we.
- When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives.
- Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the sin, but the heart, or…
- God our Father, Jesus, our Elder Brother and our Redeemer, and the Holy Ghost, the Testator, are perfect. They know us best and love us…
- I feel certain that if, in our homes, parents will read from the Book of Mormon prayerfully and regularly, both by themselves and with their…
- Our parents deserve our honor and respect for giving us life itself. Beyond this they almost always made countless sacrifices as they cared for and…
- The Book of Mormon is the 'keystone' of our religion, and the Doctrine and Covenants is the 'capstone,' with continuing latter day revelation. The Lord…
- The Book of Mormon offers so much that broadens our understandings of the doctrines of salvation. Without it, much of what is taught in other…
- When our Heavenly Father placed Adam and Eve on this earth, He did so with the purpose in mind of teaching them how to regain…
- Woman was given to man as an helpmeet. That complementary association is ideally portrayed in the eternal marriage of our first parents - Adam and…
- When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes our quest, in that moment God will endow us with power.
- When our children obey the Lord and go to the temple to receive their blessings and enter into the marriage covenant, they enter into the…
- Pride adversely affects all our relationships - our relationship with God and His servants, between husband and wife, parent and child, employer and employee, teacher…
- A positive self-image has little relationship to our material circumstances.
- False thinking and false ideologies, dressed in the most pleasing forms, quietly - almost without our knowing it - seek to reduce our moral defenses…
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