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).
BOYD K. PACKERThe Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ has the nourishing power to heal starving spirits of the world.
More Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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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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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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Faith, to be faith, must walk to the edge of the light, and then a few steps into the darkness. If everything has to be known, if everything has to be explained, if everything has to be certified, then there is no need for faith. Indeed, there is no room for it.
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We were given our agency. We must use it wisely and remain close to the Spirit; otherwise, we foolishly find ourselves yielding to the enticements of the adversary.
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Arms now empty will be filled and hearts now hurting from broken dreams and yearning will be healed.
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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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In or out of marriage, abortion is not an individual choice. At a minimum, three lives are involved.
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Happily ever after never happens in the second act.
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The house of the Lord, bathed in light, standing out in the darkness, becomes symbolic of the power and the inspiration of the gospel of Jesus Christ standing as a beacon in a world that sinks ever further into spiritual darkness.
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The Atonement has practical, personal, everyday value; apply it in your life. It can be activated with so simple a beginning as prayer.
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Keep the fire of your testimony of the restored gospel and your witness of our Redeemer burning so brightly that our children can warm their hands by the fire of your faith.
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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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How grateful we are for you, our youth.
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No one of us can survive in the world of today, much less what it will become, without personal inspiration.
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Do you realize how marvelous it is that you can call upon the Atonement? The Lord effected the Atonement for our sakes. And there isn’t anything that you can’t repent from and that you can’t be rescued from if you will repent and be determined to make the decision.
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