The Atonement has practical, personal, everyday value; apply it in your life. It can be activated with so simple a beginning as prayer.
BOYD K. PACKERThere 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.
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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Some things that are true are not very useful.
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Progression: you can start from where you are.
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Despite the opposition, trials, and temptations, you need not fail or fear.
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You have that same agency. Use it wisely to deny acting on any impure impulse or unholy temptation that may come into your mind. Just do not go there, and if you are already there, come back out of it. ‘Deny yourselves of all ungodliness’ (Moroni 10:32).
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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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Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.
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The flak is always the heaviest closest to the target
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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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How grateful we are for you, our youth.
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You always hold the key of repentance to unlock the prison door. If they throw the word diversity at you, grab hold of it and say, “I am already diverse, and I intend to stay diverse.”
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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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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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Behold, he who has repented of his sins, the same is forgiven, and I, the Lord, remember them no more.
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Take hold of your life and order yourself to be valiant.
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