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We are each making the record from which we shall be judged. The accounts are kept precisely, and the day will come when the Lord will “reveal the secret acts of men, and the thoughts and intents of their hearts” (D&C 88:109).

President Joseph F. Smith said:

“May I say to you that in reality a man cannot forget anything? He may have a lapse of memory; he may not be able to recall at the moment a thing that he knows, or words that he has spoken; he may not have the power at his will to call up these events and words; but let God Almighty touch the mainspring of the memory, and awaken recollection, and you will find then that you have not even forgotten a single idle word that you have spoken!”

(“A Sermon on Purity,” Improvement Era, May 1903, pp. 503–4).

Book of Mormon Student Manual (1996 Edition)

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