If our view is limited to mortal life, some things become unbearable because they seem so unfair and so permanent.
BOYD K. PACKERThe Spirit is a voice that one feels more than hears.
More Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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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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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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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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We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see
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We live in a day when the adversary stresses on every hand the philosophy of instant gratification. We seem to demand instant everything, including instant solutions to our problems. . .
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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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The answer is the same for everyone: we must, and we can, resist temptations of any kind.
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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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Historians should tell only that part of the truth that is inspiring and uplifting.
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Largely because of television, instead of looking over into that spacious building, we are, in effect, living inside of it. That is your fate in this generation. You are living in that great and spacious building.
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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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Freedom is not a self-preserving gift. It has to be earned, and it has to be protected.
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There are spiritual and physical laws to obey if we are to be happy.
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The permissiveness afforded by the weakening of the laws of the land to tolerate legalized acts of immorality does not reduce the serious spiritual consequence that is the result of the violation of God’s law of chastity.
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The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evil.
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