Fear is the opposite of faith. We move forward, certain that the Lord will watch over us, particularly in the family.
BOYD K. PACKERDespite the opposition, trials, and temptations, you need not fail or fear.
More Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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The spiritually starving hesitate to partake of the Spirit like a child’s reaction to new and strange food. They must be offered a tiny bite on a spoon.
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If you understand the great plan of happiness and follow it, what goes on in the world will not determine your happiness.
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In all that we do in the Church, we need to provide the way, as leaders, for parents and children to have time together as families.
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At the temple the dust of distraction seems to settle out, the fog and the haze seem to lift, and we can ‘see’ things that we were not able to see before and find a way through our troubles that we had not previously known.
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Tolerance is a virtue, but like all virtues, when exaggerated, it transforms itself into a vice. We need to be careful of the “tolerance trap” so that we are not swallowed up in it.
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Faith is a real power, not just an expression of belief.
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In a sense, speaking figuratively, to take one’s agency, that precious gift which the scriptures make plain is essential to life itself, and say, “I will do as you direct,” is afterward to learn that in so doing you possess it all the more.
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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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Arms now empty will be filled and hearts now hurting from broken dreams and yearning will be healed.
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Every soul confined in a prison of sin, guilt, or perversion has a key to the gate. The key is labeled “repentance.” If you know how to use this key, the adversary cannot hold you.
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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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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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I’ve learned the power of the dictum, “Early to bed, early to rise.” When I’m under pressure, you won’t find me burning the midnight oil. I’d much rather be in bed early and getting up in the wee hours of the morning.
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How grateful we are for you, our youth.
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No service in the Church or in the community transcends that given in the home.
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