The Spirit is a voice that one feels more than hears.
BOYD K. PACKERHusbands and wives should understand that their first calling-from which they will never be released-is to one another and then to their children.
More Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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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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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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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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Historians should tell only that part of the truth that is inspiring and uplifting.
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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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If our view is limited to mortal life, some things become unbearable because they seem so unfair and so permanent.
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We are able to feel and learn very quickly through music, through art, through poetry some spiritual things that we would otherwise learn very slowly.
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This shield of faith is best fabricated in a cottage industry. While the shield can be polished in classes in the Church and in activities, it is meant to be handcrafted in the home and fitted to each individual.
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One who can control his thoughts has conquered himself.
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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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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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Addiction has the capacity to disconnect the human will and nullify moral agency. It can rob one of the power to decide.
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In a sense, speaking figuratively, to take one’s agency, that precious gift which the scriptures make plain is essential to life itself, and say, “I will do as you direct,” is afterward to learn that in so doing you possess it all the more.
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Seek worthy companions. Attend church faithfully. Never fail daily to seek for help through prayer. And I promise you that the way will be easier and you shall have a composure of mind and a confident attitude toward life and the future.
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If prayer is to leave the public schools, let the ridicule of prayer leave also.
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