If the word is tolerance, grab that one, too, saying, “I expect you to be tolerant of my lifestyle-obedience, integrity, abstinence, repentance.” If the word is choice, tell them you choose good, old-fashioned morality.
BOYD K. PACKERIn the eternal scheme of things – not always in mortality – righteous yearning and longing will be fulfilled.
More Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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You ought to know that the Lord loves you. He will make that known to you, and it will be a very private and individual experience, something you cannot explain to anyone else.
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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.
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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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The flak is always the heaviest closest to the target
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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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Progression: you can start from where you are.
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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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No teaching is equal, more spiritually rewarding, or more exalting than that of a mother teaching her children.
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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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Husbands and wives should understand that their first calling-from which they will never be released-is to one another and then to their children.
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The Spirit is a voice that one feels more than hears.
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Moral standards cannot be changed by battle and cannot be changed by ballot.
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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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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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Tolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice.
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