Some people think a miracle is only a miracle if it happens instantaneously, but miracles can grow slowly and patience and faith can compel things to happen that otherwise never would have come to pass.
BOYD K. PACKEROur lives are made up of thousands of everyday choices. Over the years these little choices will be bundled together and show clearly what we value.
More Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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This shield of faith is best fabricated in a cottage industry. While the shield can be polished in classes in the Church and in activities, it is meant to be handcrafted in the home and fitted to each individual.
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Family time is sacred time and should be protected and respected.
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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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Faith, to be faith, must walk to the edge of the light, and then a few steps into the darkness. If everything has to be known, if everything has to be explained, if everything has to be certified, then there is no need for faith. Indeed, there is no room for it.
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The gospel stands as true for those who reject it as for those who accept it – both will be judged by it.
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Addiction has the capacity to disconnect the human will and nullify moral agency. It can rob one of the power to decide.
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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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Music can set an atmosphere of worship which invites [the] spirit of revelation, of testimony.
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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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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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Seek worthy companions. Attend church faithfully. Never fail daily to seek for help through prayer. And I promise you that the way will be easier and you shall have a composure of mind and a confident attitude toward life and the future.
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Happiness is inseparably connected with decent, clean behavior.
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We live in a day when the adversary stresses on every hand the philosophy of instant gratification. We seem to demand instant everything, including instant solutions to our problems. . .
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Take hold of your life and order yourself to be valiant.
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We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see
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