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.
BOYD K. PACKERProgression: you can start from where you are.
More Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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Despite the opposition, trials, and temptations, you need not fail or fear.
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Justice can seem to be so very demanding. But we must learn that when we put everything as right as we can put it right, it is Justice who invokes the Atonement, orders the adversary off our property, and posts the notice that his agents will make no more collections from us.
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It has to be an awfully good meeting to beat having no meeting at all.
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Young men speak about the future because they have no past, and old men speak of the past because they have no future.
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The atonement of Christ is not just for those who sin. The mercy of Christ encompasses all pain.
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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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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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No service in the Church or in the community transcends that given in the home.
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Christ’s mercy is the mighty healer; even to the wounded innocent.
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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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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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If you need a transfusion of spiritual strength then just ask for it. We call that Prayer. Prayer is powerful spiritual medicine.
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The gift of the Holy Ghost operates equally with men, women, and even little children. It is within this wondrous gift and power that the spiritual remedy to any problem can be found.
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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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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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