When temptation comes, you can invent a delete key in your mind- perhaps the words from a favorite hymn. Your mind is in charge; your body is the instrument of your mind.
BOYD K. PACKERMoral standards cannot be changed by battle and cannot be changed by ballot.
More Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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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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There are few things more powerful than the faithful prayers of a righteous mother.
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Latter-day Saints are not obedient because they are compelled to be obedient. They are obedient because they know certain spiritual truths and have decided, as an expression of their own individual agency, to obey the commandments of God. . . .
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In the eternal scheme of things – not always in mortality – righteous yearning and longing will be fulfilled.
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Hit the ‘delete’ button when you have unrighteous thoughts.
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How grateful we are for you, our youth.
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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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It has to be an awfully good meeting to beat having no meeting at all.
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One thing is very clear: the safest place and the best protection against the moral and spiritual diseases is a stable home and family. This has always been true; it will be true forever. We must keep that foremost in our minds.
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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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Despite the opposition, trials, and temptations, you need not fail or fear.
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Moral standards cannot be changed by battle and cannot be changed by ballot.
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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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The scriptures hold the keys to spiritual protection.
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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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