In the eternal scheme of things – not always in mortality – righteous yearning and longing will be fulfilled.
BOYD K. PACKERMoral standards cannot be changed by battle and cannot be changed by ballot.
More Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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Tolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice.
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Temple. One other word is equal in importance to a Latter-day Saint. Home. Put the words holy temple and home together, and you have described the house of the Lord!
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The permissiveness afforded by the weakening of the laws of the land to tolerate legalized acts of immorality does not reduce the serious spiritual consequence that is the result of the violation of God’s law of chastity.
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The idea that life began with mortal birth is preposterous. There is no way to explain life if you believe that.
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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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Hit the ‘delete’ button when you have unrighteous thoughts.
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We are able to feel and learn very quickly through music, through art, through poetry some spiritual things that we would otherwise learn very slowly.
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Happily ever after never happens in the second act.
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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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I’m not ashamed to say that I want to be good. And I’ve found in my life that it has been critically important to establish this intention between me and the Lord so that I knew that HE knew which way I committed my agency.
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If you have seen one of the temples at night, fully lighted, you know what an impressive sight that can be.
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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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Teach our members that if they have a good, miserable day once in a while, or several in a row, to stand steady and face them. Things will straighten out. There is great purpose in our struggle in life.
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Music can set an atmosphere of worship which invites [the] spirit of revelation, of testimony.
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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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