Devotion to the family and devotion to the Church are not different and separate things.
BOYD K. PACKERThe first gift that Adam and Eve received was agency: ‘Thou mayest choose for thyself, for it is given unto thee’ (Moses 3:17).
More Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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Addiction has the capacity to disconnect the human will and nullify moral agency. It can rob one of the power to decide.
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The flak is always the heaviest closest to the target
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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!
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Faith is a real power, not just an expression of belief.
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Do not ever disturb prelude music for others, for reverence is essential to revelation
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Music can set an atmosphere of worship which invites [the] spirit of revelation, of testimony.
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Mature love has a bliss not even imagined by newlyweds.
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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….Some needlessly carry a heavy burden of guilt which could be removed through confession and repentance.
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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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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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It was meant to be that life would be a challenge. To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal.
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Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.
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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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Somewhere there is a message in the protest of the man who said, “You can’t tell me that worry doesn’t help. The things I worry about never happen.”
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There is also an age-old excuse: “The devil made me do it.” Not so! He can deceive you and mislead you, but he does not have the power to force you or anyone else to transgress or to keep you in transgression.
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