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• Tolerance obviously requires a non-contentious manner of relating toward one another’s differences. But tolerance does not require abandoning one’s standards or one’s opinions on political or public policy choices. Tolerance is a way of reacting to diversity, not a command to insulate it from examination.

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  Differences, Diversity, Choices

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• The greatest power God has given to His sons cannot be exercised without the companionship of one of his daughters, because only to his daughters has God given the power to be a creator of bodies so that God’s design and the great plan might meet fruition.

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  Daughter, Son, Design

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• My experiences taught me firsthand that when a person is not performing well, there are many possible reasons, some not of his own choosing.

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  Taught, Reason, Performing

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• In contrast to the institutions of the world, which teach us to KNOW something, the gospel of Jesus Christ challenges us to BECOME something...The gospel of Jesus Christ is the plan by which we can become what children of god are supposed to become...Charity is something one becomes.

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  Jesus, Children, Challenges

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• Establish in the mind of a young person the powerful idea that he or she is a child of God, and you have given self-respect and motivation to move against the problems of life.

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  Motivation, Powerful, Children

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• Even as we seek to be meek and to avoid contention, we must not compromise or dilute our commitment to the truths we understand. We must not surrender our positions or our values. The gospel of Jesus Christ and the covenants we have made inevitably cast us as combatants in the eternal contest between truth and error. there is no middle ground in that contest.

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  Jesus, Commitment, Errors

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• It's wrong to criticize leaders of the Church, even if the criticism is true.

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  Leader, Criticism, Church

  Interview with Helen Whitney, www.mormonnewsroom.org. July 20, 2007.

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• The church doesn't seek apologies and we don't give them.

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  Apology, Giving, Church

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• Testimony is to know and to feel, Conversion is to do and to become.

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  Testimony, Feels, Knows

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• Our attitude toward abortion . . . is fixed by our knowledge that according to an eternal plan all of the spirit children of God must come to this earth for a glorious purpose, and that individual identity began long before conception and will continue for all the eternities to come. We rely on the prophets of God who have told us that while there may be 'rare' exceptions, 'the practice of elective abortion is fundamentally contrary to the Lord's injunction, 'Thou shalt not . . . kill, nor do anything like unto it'

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  Children, Attitude, Practice

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• Love is the most powerful force in the world.

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  Love, Powerful, Civilization

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• The principles stated in the proclamation on the family are a beautiful expression of this gospel culture.

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  Beautiful, Expression, Principles

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• To achieve our eternal destiny, we will desire and work for the qualities required to become an eternal being.

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  Destiny, Desire, Quality

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• Plan specifically so you can implement flexibly.

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  Plans

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• And young women, please understand that if you dress immodestly, you are magnifying this problem by becoming pornography to some of the men who see you.

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  Men, Dresses, Becoming

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• If our bodies are sick, we seek to heal them. We do not give up. The same thing should be true of our marriages.

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  Giving Up, Sick, Body

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• If we are practicing our faith and seeking the companionship of the Holy Spirit, his presence can be felt in our hearts and in our homes. A family having daily family prayers and seeking to keep the commandments of God and honor his name and speak lovingly to one another will have a spiritual feeling in their home that will be discernible to all who enter it.

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  Spiritual, Prayer, Home

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• The gospel of Jesus Christ challenges us to change. “Repent” is its most frequent message, and repenting means giving up all of our practices-perso nal, family, ethnic, and national-that are contrary to the commandments of God. The purpose of the gospel is to transform common creatures into celestial citizens, and that requires change.

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  Jesus, Giving Up, Mean

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• We need to remember the purpose of our service to one another. If it were only to accomplish some part of His work, God could dispatch 'legions of angels.' . . . But that would not achieve the purpose of the service He has prescribed. We serve God and our fellowmen in order to become the kind of children who can return to live with our heavenly parents.

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  Children, Angel, Order

  "I’ll Go Where You Want Me to Go" by Dallin H. Oaks, www.lds.org. October 2002.

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• The distinction between feelings or inclinations on the one hand, and behavior on the other hand, is very clear. It's no sin to have inclinations that if yielded to would produce behavior that would be a transgression. The sin is in yielding to temptation. Temptation is not unique. Even the Savior was tempted.

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  Unique, Hands, Feelings

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• We have to forego some good things in order to choose others that are better or best because they develop faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and strengthen our families.

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  Jesus, Order, Christ

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• All of us should banish hateful communications and practice civility for differences of opinion.

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  Communication, Practice, Differences

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• My single young friends, we counsel you to channel your associations with the opposite sex into dating patterns that have the potential to mature into marriage, not hanging-out patterns that only have the prospect to mature into team sports like touch football. Marriage is not a group activity—at least not until the children come along in goodly numbers

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  Sports, Football, Sex

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• Service to mankind must ever be the ideal of this great university. It was established in the name of Jesus Christ, who gave his life that all men might live.

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  Jesus, Men, Names

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• I believe many of us are overnourished on entertainment junk food and undernourished on the bread of life.

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  Believe, Bread Of Life, Junk

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