Temple. One other word is equal in importance to a Latter-day Saint. Home. Put the words holy temple and home together, and you have described the house of the Lord!
BOYD K. PACKERThe Spirit is a voice that one feels more than hears.
More Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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Do not ever disturb prelude music for others, for reverence is essential to revelation
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Seek worthy companions. Attend church faithfully. Never fail daily to seek for help through prayer. And I promise you that the way will be easier and you shall have a composure of mind and a confident attitude toward life and the future.
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The end of all activity in the church is to see that a man and a woman with their children are happy at home, sealed for eternity.
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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 atonement of Christ is not just for those who sin. The mercy of Christ encompasses all pain.
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Some people think a miracle is only a miracle if it happens instantaneously, but miracles can grow slowly and patience and faith can compel things to happen that otherwise never would have come to pass.
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Mature love has a bliss not even imagined by newlyweds.
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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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In or out of marriage, abortion is not an individual choice. At a minimum, three lives are involved.
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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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Like most things of great worth, knowledge which is of eternal value comes only through personal prayer and pondering.
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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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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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Do you realize how marvelous it is that you can call upon the Atonement? The Lord effected the Atonement for our sakes. And there isn’t anything that you can’t repent from and that you can’t be rescued from if you will repent and be determined to make the decision.
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If you understand the great plan of happiness and follow it, what goes on in the world will not determine your happiness.
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