When temptation comes, you can invent a delete key in your mind- perhaps the words from a favorite hymn. Your mind is in charge; your body is the instrument of your mind.
BOYD K. PACKERHe who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty” – Lao-tsu One who can control his thoughts has conquered himself.
More Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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Faith is a real power, not just an expression of belief.
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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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In 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.
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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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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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No service in the Church or in the community transcends that given in the home.
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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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Those who choose, conduct, present, and accompany the music may influence the spirit of reverence … more than a speaker does.
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One who can control his thoughts has conquered himself.
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Happiness will depend on what each of us does with what each has, what we learn from what we do, and what we do thereafter.
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If you stumble, rise up, go on.
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One thing is very clear: the safest place and the best protection against the moral and spiritual diseases is a stable home and family. This has always been true; it will be true forever. We must keep that foremost in our minds.
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We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see.
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Some 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.
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Fear is the opposite of faith. We move forward, certain that the Lord will watch over us, particularly in the family.
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Joseph’s vision of the Father and the Son opened this dispensation. Then came the Restoration of the fulness of the gospel of Jesus Christ with the same organization that existed in the primitive Church, built upon the foundation of apostles and prophets.
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Family time is sacred time and should be protected and respected.
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A testimony of the hope of redemption is something which cannot be measured or counted. Jesus Christ is the source of that hope.
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Do not ever disturb prelude music for others, for reverence is essential to revelation
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If you understand the great plan of happiness and follow it, what goes on in the world will not determine your happiness.
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We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see
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Hit the ‘delete’ button when you have unrighteous thoughts.
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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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Thoughts, like water, will stay on course if we make a place for them to go. As you learn to control your thoughts, you can gain courage, conquer fear and have a happy life.
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Tolerance is a virtue, but like all virtues, when exaggerated, it transforms itself into a vice. We need to be careful of the “tolerance trap” so that we are not swallowed up in it.
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Moral standards cannot be changed by battle and cannot be changed by ballot.
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