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.
BOYD K. PACKERThe spiritually starving hesitate to partake of the Spirit like a child’s reaction to new and strange food. They must be offered a tiny bite on a spoon.
More Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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Husbands and wives should understand that their first calling-from which they will never be released-is to one another and then to their children.
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Take hold of your life and order yourself to be valiant.
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Parents 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.
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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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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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Christ’s mercy is the mighty healer; even to the wounded innocent.
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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 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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The flak is always the heaviest closest to the target
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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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Like most things of great worth, knowledge which is of eternal value comes only through personal prayer and pondering.
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Faith is a real power, not just an expression of belief.
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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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We could be like a father determined to provide everything for his family. He devotes every energy to that end and succeeds; only then does he discover that what they needed most, to be together as a family, has been neglected. And he reaps sorrow in place of contentment.
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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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