He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty” – Lao-tsu One who can control his thoughts has conquered himself.
BOYD K. PACKERYou 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).
More Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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There are few things more powerful than the faithful prayers of a righteous mother.
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Happily ever after never happens in the second act.
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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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If you stumble, rise up, go on.
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The purest, most beautiful and appealing experiences of life: romance, love, marriage, and parenthood.
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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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Latter-day Saints are not obedient because they are compelled to be obedient. They are obedient because they know certain spiritual truths and have decided, as an expression of their own individual agency, to obey the commandments of God. . . .
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Our lives are made up of thousands of everyday choices. Over the years these little choices will be bundled together and show clearly what we value.
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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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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 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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The end of all activity in the church is to see that a man and a woman with their children are happy at home, sealed for eternity.
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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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Historians should tell only that part of the truth that is inspiring and uplifting.
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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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No service in the Church or in the community transcends that given in the home.
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Mature love has a bliss not even imagined by newlyweds.
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Moral standards cannot be changed by battle and cannot be changed by ballot.
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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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The scriptures hold the keys to spiritual protection.
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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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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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Do not ever disturb prelude music for others, for reverence is essential to revelation
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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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Parents now are concerned about the moral and spiritual diseases. These can have terrible complications when standards and values are abandoned. We must all take protective measures.
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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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