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.
BOYD K. PACKERThe 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.
More Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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Family time is sacred time and should be protected and respected.
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A testimony is a testimony, and it should be respected, whether it is small or large.
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The first gift that Adam and Eve received was agency: ‘Thou mayest choose for thyself, for it is given unto thee’ (Moses 3:17).
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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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If the word is tolerance, grab that one, too, saying, “I expect you to be tolerant of my lifestyle-obedience, integrity, abstinence, repentance.” If the word is choice, tell them you choose good, old-fashioned morality.
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In all that we do in the Church, we need to provide the way, as leaders, for parents and children to have time together as families.
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Historians should tell only that part of the truth that is inspiring and uplifting.
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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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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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Fear is the opposite of faith. We move forward, certain that the Lord will watch over us, particularly in the family.
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How grateful we are for you, our youth.
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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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If you stumble, rise up, go on.
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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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The scriptures speak of ‘the shield of faith wherewith,’ the Lord said, ‘ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked’ (D&C 27:17).
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Faith is a real power, not just an expression of belief.
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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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If you are burdened with depressing feelings of guilt or disappointment, of failure or shame, there is a cure.
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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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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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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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There are few things more powerful than the faithful prayers of a righteous mother.
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Take hold of your life and order yourself to be valiant.
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Just as chalk can be removed from a chalkboard, with sincere repentance, the effects of our transgression can be erased through the atonement of Jesus Christ.
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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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