Despite the opposition, trials, and temptations, you need not fail or fear.
BOYD K. PACKERHappiness is inseparably connected with decent, clean behavior.
More Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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I’m not ashamed to say that I want to be good. And I’ve found in my life that it has been critically important to establish this intention between me and the Lord so that I knew that HE knew which way I committed my agency.
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Devotion to the family and devotion to the Church are not different and separate things.
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The permissiveness afforded by the weakening of the laws of the land to tolerate legalized acts of immorality does not reduce the serious spiritual consequence that is the result of the violation of God’s law of chastity.
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In the eternal scheme of things – not always in mortality – righteous yearning and longing will be fulfilled.
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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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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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Some worry endlessly over missions that were missed, or marriages that did not turn out, or babies that did not arrive, or children that seem lost, or dreams unfulfilled, or because age limits what they can do.
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Our whole social order could self-destruct over the obsession with freedom disconnected from responsibility; where choice is imagined to be somehow independent of consequences.
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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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Mature love has a bliss not even imagined by newlyweds.
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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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We live in a day when the adversary stresses on every hand the philosophy of instant gratification. We seem to demand instant everything, including instant solutions to our problems. . .
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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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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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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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