Some things that are true are not very useful.
BOYD K. PACKERTake hold of your life and order yourself to be valiant.
More Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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Historians should tell only that part of the truth that is inspiring and uplifting.
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One of the adversary’s sharpest tools is to convince us that we are no longer worthy to pray. No matter who you are or what you may have done, you can always pray.
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Happiness is inseparably connected with decent, clean behavior.
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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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Repentance is the key with which we can unlock the prison from inside. We hold that key within our hands, and agency is ours to use it.
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Every soul confined in a prison of sin, guilt, or perversion has a key to the gate. The key is labeled “repentance.” If you know how to use this key, the adversary cannot hold you.
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If you will turn away from sin, you will be able one day to know the peace that comes from following the pathway of complete repentance.
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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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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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No teaching is equal, more spiritually rewarding, or more exalting than that of a mother teaching her children.
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Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.
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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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There is a falsehood that some are born with an attraction to their own kind, with nothing they can do about it. They are just ‘that way’ and can only yield to those desires. That is a malicious and destructive lie. While it is a convincing idea to some, it is of the devil.
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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 one of us can survive in the world of today, much less what it will become, without personal inspiration.
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