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The Restoration and Human Errors: A Reflection
“As a child, I used to think that because the Restoration was all about fixing errors, our church was error-free. But then I learned that we, the Latter-day Saints, are not immune to errors, bad judgement, social pressures, and sin. So often, we make mistakes, just like any other group of God’s children. We are…
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Finding Strength Through Suffering
“Having experienced suffering, one develops power over it — not the power to stop it, or take it away from someone you love, but to know its sorrows fade. Having experienced suffering, one receives power from it — the power to share others’ burdens and be humble, to see one’s own burdens and be kind.…
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Jesus’ Experience with Human Pain: A Spiritual Perspective
“Christ shrank from none of the bitter indignities of mortality, in order to be someone who is not insulated from our difficult lived reality. If you only live in a beautiful, prosperous world in which the beautiful and righteous prosper, then people who spent the day curled up in pain are not for you, and…
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Reaching Out: The Power of Encouragement
“May our lights be bright without a flicker, as we tend the lights along the shore. Let us each one reach out and touch another. Let us help carry one another’s burdens. In cooperation we can overcome great odds. Let us rejoice with one another. It may be just a smile, a note, a call,…
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Understanding Doctrine Through Trials
“There will continue to be much opposition to true doctrine; but by and by the storm subsides, the clouds disperse, the sun breaks forth, and the rock of truth is seen again, firm and lasting. There never was a true principle that was not met by storm after storm of opposition and abuse, until that…
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