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.
BOYD K. PACKERIn all that we do in the Church, we need to provide the way, as leaders, for parents and children to have time together as families.
More Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ has the nourishing power to heal starving spirits of the world.
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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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Happiness is inseparably connected with decent, clean behavior.
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Devotion to the family and devotion to the Church are not different and separate things.
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If you stumble, rise up, go on.
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Husbands and wives should understand that their first calling-from which they will never be released-is to one another and then to their children.
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The Spirit is a voice that one feels more than hears.
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We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see
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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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The scriptures speak of ‘the shield of faith wherewith,’ the Lord said, ‘ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked’ (D&C 27:17).
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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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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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Often, very often, we are punished as much by our sins as we are for them.
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How grateful we are for you, our youth.
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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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