Progression: you can start from where you are.
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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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….Some needlessly carry a heavy burden of guilt which could be removed through confession and repentance.
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Those who choose, conduct, present, and accompany the music may influence the spirit of reverence … more than a speaker does.
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Our whole social order could self-destruct over the obsession with freedom disconnected from responsibility; where choice is imagined to be somehow independent of consequences.
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Family time is sacred time and should be protected and respected.
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Everything that I have learned from the revelations and from life convinces me that there is time and to spare for you to carefully prepare for a long life.
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What a wonderful time to be young. You will see events in your lifetime that will test your courage and extend your faith. If you will face the sunlight of truth, the shadows of discouragement and sin and error will fall behind you. You must never give up!
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Fear is the opposite of faith. We move forward, certain that the Lord will watch over us, particularly in the family.
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Fix that truth in your mind and hold to it. However many generations in your mortal ancestry, no matter what race or people you represent, the pedigree of your spirit can be written on a single line. You are a child of God!
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Devotion to the family and devotion to the Church are not different and separate things.
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The end of all activity in the church is to see that a man and a woman with their children are happy at home, sealed for eternity.
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Joseph’s vision of the Father and the Son opened this dispensation. Then came the Restoration of the fulness of the gospel of Jesus Christ with the same organization that existed in the primitive Church, built upon the foundation of apostles and prophets.
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Freedom is not a self-preserving gift. It has to be earned, and it has to be protected.
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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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No pain will last forever. It is not easy, but life was never meant to be either easy or fair. Repentance and the lasting hope that forgiveness brings will always be worth the effort.
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Throughout your life there may be times when you have gone places you never should have gone and done things you never should have done.
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