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.
BOYD K. PACKERParents now are concerned about the moral and spiritual diseases. These can have terrible complications when standards and values are abandoned. We must all take protective measures.
More Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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There’s no credit buying on eternal things, none at all. Anything that is worthwhile has to be paid for in advance.
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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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If you are burdened with depressing feelings of guilt or disappointment, of failure or shame, there is a cure.
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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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Take hold of your life and order yourself to be valiant.
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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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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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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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No one of us can survive in the world of today, much less what it will become, without personal inspiration.
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You have that same agency. Use it wisely to deny acting on any impure impulse or unholy temptation that may come into your mind. Just do not go there, and if you are already there, come back out of it. ‘Deny yourselves of all ungodliness’ (Moroni 10:32).
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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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The purest, most beautiful and appealing experiences of life: romance, love, marriage, and parenthood.
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You ought to know that the Lord loves you. He will make that known to you, and it will be a very private and individual experience, something you cannot explain to anyone else.
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It was meant to be that life would be a challenge. To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal.
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Happily ever after never happens in the second act.
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