No service in the Church or in the community transcends that given in the home.
BOYD K. PACKERSome people think a miracle is only a miracle if it happens instantaneously, but miracles can grow slowly and patience and faith can compel things to happen that otherwise never would have come to pass.
More Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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Every soul confined in a prison of sin, guilt, or perversion has a key to the gate. The key is labeled “repentance.” If you know how to use this key, the adversary cannot hold you.
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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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If you are burdened with depressing feelings of guilt or disappointment, of failure or shame, there is a cure.
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Happily ever after never happens in the second act.
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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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Those who choose, conduct, present, and accompany the music may influence the spirit of reverence … more than a speaker does.
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Do not ever disturb prelude music for others, for reverence is essential to revelation
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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 idea that life began with mortal birth is preposterous. There is no way to explain life if you believe that.
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A testimony is a testimony, and it should be respected, whether it is small or large.
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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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In a sense, speaking figuratively, to take one’s agency, that precious gift which the scriptures make plain is essential to life itself, and say, “I will do as you direct,” is afterward to learn that in so doing you possess it all the more.
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The first gift that Adam and Eve received was agency: ‘Thou mayest choose for thyself, for it is given unto thee’ (Moses 3:17).
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Fix that truth in your mind and hold to it. However many generations in your mortal ancestry, no matter what race or people you represent, the pedigree of your spirit can be written on a single line. You are a child of God!
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If you will turn away from sin, you will be able one day to know the peace that comes from following the pathway of complete repentance.
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