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If I had had this experience earlier in life, I would have been much wiser, much more compassionate. I really didn't understand what it was that made ...more

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There's a patter in these Commandments of setting things apart so that their holiness will be perceived. Every day is holy, but the Sabbath is set apa...more

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When you encounter another person, when you have dealings with anyone at all, it is as if a question is being put to you. So you must think, What is t...more

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I have decided the two choices open to me are (1) to torment myself or (2) to trust the Lord. There is no earthly solution to the problems that confro...more

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The parents of these young soldiers would come to me and ask how the Lord could allow such a thing. I felt like asking them what the Lord would have t...more

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Adulthood is a wonderful thing and brief. You must be sure to enjoy it while it lasts. I believe the soul in Paradise must enjoy something nearer to a...more

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It seems to me some people just go around lookin' to get their faith unsettled. That has been the fashion for the last hundred years or so.

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It seems to me people tend to forget that we are to love our enemies, not to satisfy some standard of righteousness but because God their Father loves...more

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That is how life goes- we send our children into the wilderness. Some of them on the day they are born, it seems, for all the help we can give them. S...more

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There's a pattern in these Commandments of setting things apart so that their holiness will be perceived. Every day is holy, but the Sabbath is set ap...more

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Christianity is a life, not a doctrine . . . I'm not saying never doubt or question. The Lord gave you a mind so that you would make honest use of it....more

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There's so much to be grateful for, words are poor things.

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There was no way to abandon guilt, no decent way to disown it. All the tangles and knots of bitterness and desperation and fear had to be pitied. No, ...more

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I have mentioned the qualitative difference between Christianity as an ethic and Christianity as an identity. Christian ethics goes steadfastly agains...more

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In the First Epistle of Peter we are told to honor everyone, and I have never been in a situation where I felt this instruction was inappropriate. Whe...more