If our view is limited to mortal life, some things become unbearable because they seem so unfair and so permanent.
BOYD K. PACKERSome worry endlessly over missions that were missed, or marriages that did not turn out, or babies that did not arrive, or children that seem lost, or dreams unfulfilled, or because age limits what they can do.
More Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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Do not ever disturb prelude music for others, for reverence is essential to revelation
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Seek worthy companions. Attend church faithfully. Never fail daily to seek for help through prayer. And I promise you that the way will be easier and you shall have a composure of mind and a confident attitude toward life and the future.
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Progression: you can start from where you are.
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Mature love has a bliss not even imagined by newlyweds.
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There are spiritual and physical laws to obey if we are to be happy.
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Husbands and wives should understand that their first calling-from which they will never be released-is to one another and then to their children.
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The first gift that Adam and Eve received was agency: ‘Thou mayest choose for thyself, for it is given unto thee’ (Moses 3:17).
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Tolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice.
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We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see.
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Music can set an atmosphere of worship which invites [the] spirit of revelation, of testimony.
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The purest, most beautiful and appealing experiences of life: romance, love, marriage, and parenthood.
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Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.
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Do you realize how marvelous it is that you can call upon the Atonement? The Lord effected the Atonement for our sakes. And there isn’t anything that you can’t repent from and that you can’t be rescued from if you will repent and be determined to make the decision.
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Arms now empty will be filled and hearts now hurting from broken dreams and yearning will be healed.
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Happiness will depend on what each of us does with what each has, what we learn from what we do, and what we do thereafter.
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