In or out of marriage, abortion is not an individual choice. At a minimum, three lives are involved.
BOYD K. PACKERRepentance 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.
More Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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I’m not ashamed to say that I want to be good. And I’ve found in my life that it has been critically important to establish this intention between me and the Lord so that I knew that HE knew which way I committed my agency.
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I know that God is our Father. He introduced His Son, Jesus Christ, to Joseph Smith. I declare to you that I know that Jesus is the Christ. I know that He lives. He was born in the meridian of time.
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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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Throughout your life there may be times when you have gone places you never should have gone and done things you never should have done.
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One who can control his thoughts has conquered himself.
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The answer is the same for everyone: we must, and we can, resist temptations of any kind.
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Moral standards cannot be changed by battle and cannot be changed by ballot.
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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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Some worry endlessly over missions that were missed, or marriages that did not turn out, or babies that did not arrive, or children that seem lost, or dreams unfulfilled, or because age limits what they can do.
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The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ has the nourishing power to heal starving spirits of the world.
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Happiness is inseparably connected with decent, clean behavior.
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Everything that I have learned from the revelations and from life convinces me that there is time and to spare for you to carefully prepare for a long life.
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There are few things more powerful than the faithful prayers of a righteous mother.
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I have a hard time with historians because they idolize the truth. The truth is not uplifting; it destroys. I could tell most of the secretaries in the church office building that they are ugly and fat. That would be the truth, but it would hurt and destroy them.
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Family time is sacred time and should be protected and respected.
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