Our lives are made up of thousands of everyday choices. Over the years these little choices will be bundled together and show clearly what we value.
BOYD K. PACKERThroughout your life there may be times when you have gone places you never should have gone and done things you never should have done.
More Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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Often, very often, we are punished as much by our sins as we are for them.
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Devotion to the family and devotion to the Church are not different and separate things.
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Addiction has the capacity to disconnect the human will and nullify moral agency. It can rob one of the power to decide.
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The house of the Lord, bathed in light, standing out in the darkness, becomes symbolic of the power and the inspiration of the gospel of Jesus Christ standing as a beacon in a world that sinks ever further into spiritual darkness.
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The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evil.
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The ultimate effort of everything in the Church is to the end that a father and a mother and their children can be happy at home. If they are happy at home, they are spiritually prepared for whatever should be ahead of them in the world.
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Keep the fire of your testimony of the restored gospel and your witness of our Redeemer burning so brightly that our children can warm their hands by the fire of your faith.
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Parents now are concerned about the moral and spiritual diseases. These can have terrible complications when standards and values are abandoned. We must all take protective measures.
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The scriptures speak of ‘the shield of faith wherewith,’ the Lord said, ‘ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked’ (D&C 27:17).
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If you will turn away from sin, you will be able one day to know the peace that comes from following the pathway of complete repentance.
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The answer is the same for everyone: we must, and we can, resist temptations of any kind.
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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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Tolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice.
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There is a falsehood that some are born with an attraction to their own kind, with nothing they can do about it. They are just ‘that way’ and can only yield to those desires. That is a malicious and destructive lie. While it is a convincing idea to some, it is of the devil.
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There is also an age-old excuse: “The devil made me do it.” Not so! He can deceive you and mislead you, but he does not have the power to force you or anyone else to transgress or to keep you in transgression.
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