Some people think a miracle is only a miracle if it happens instantaneously, but miracles can grow slowly and patience and faith can compel things to happen that otherwise never would have come to pass.
BOYD K. PACKERLife moves all too fast. When you feel weak, discouraged, depressed, or afraid, open the Book of Mormon and read.
More Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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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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We could be like a father determined to provide everything for his family. He devotes every energy to that end and succeeds; only then does he discover that what they needed most, to be together as a family, has been neglected. And he reaps sorrow in place of contentment.
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Progression: you can start from where you are.
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We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see
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Largely because of television, instead of looking over into that spacious building, we are, in effect, living inside of it. That is your fate in this generation. You are living in that great and spacious building.
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Often, very often, we are punished as much by our sins as we are for them.
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In or out of marriage, abortion is not an individual choice. At a minimum, three lives are involved.
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Take hold of your life and order yourself to be valiant.
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No teaching is equal, more spiritually rewarding, or more exalting than that of a mother teaching her children.
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If you need a transfusion of spiritual strength then just ask for it. We call that Prayer. Prayer is powerful spiritual medicine.
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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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Despite the opposition, trials, and temptations, you need not fail or fear.
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Tolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice.
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Faith is a real power, not just an expression of belief.
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I do not think it pleases the Lord when we worry because we think we never do enough or that what we do is never good enough.
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