If prayer is to leave the public schools, let the ridicule of prayer leave also.
BOYD K. PACKERTolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice.
More Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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Progression: you can start from where you are.
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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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Historians should tell only that part of the truth that is inspiring and uplifting.
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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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Happily ever after never happens in the second act.
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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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Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.
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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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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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The ultimate effort of everything in the Church is to the end that a father and a mother and their children can be happy at home. If they are happy at home, they are spiritually prepared for whatever should be ahead of them in the world.
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The gospel stands as true for those who reject it as for those who accept it – both will be judged by it.
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The Atonement has practical, personal, everyday value; apply it in your life. It can be activated with so simple a beginning as prayer.
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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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I’ve learned the power of the dictum, “Early to bed, early to rise.” When I’m under pressure, you won’t find me burning the midnight oil. I’d much rather be in bed early and getting up in the wee hours of the morning.
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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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