Moral standards cannot be changed by battle and cannot be changed by ballot.
BOYD K. PACKERThe Atonement has practical, personal, everyday value; apply it in your life. It can be activated with so simple a beginning as prayer.
More Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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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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You ought to know that the Lord loves you. He will make that known to you, and it will be a very private and individual experience, something you cannot explain to anyone else.
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How grateful we are for you, our youth.
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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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He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty” – Lao-tsu One who can control his thoughts has conquered himself.
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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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Latter-day Saints are not obedient because they are compelled to be obedient. They are obedient because they know certain spiritual truths and have decided, as an expression of their own individual agency, to obey the commandments of God. . . .
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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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Music can set an atmosphere of worship which invites [the] spirit of revelation, of testimony.
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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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Repentance 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.
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No teaching is equal, more spiritually rewarding, or more exalting than that of a mother teaching her children.
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Tolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice.
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One of the adversary’s sharpest tools is to convince us that we are no longer worthy to pray. No matter who you are or what you may have done, you can always pray.
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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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