Take hold of your life and order yourself to be valiant.
BOYD K. PACKERSome 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.
More Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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No service in the Church or in the community transcends that given in the home.
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Moral standards cannot be changed by battle and cannot be changed by ballot.
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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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Progression: you can start from where you are.
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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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I’ve learned the power of the dictum, “Early to bed, early to rise.” When I’m under pressure, you won’t find me burning the midnight oil. I’d much rather be in bed early and getting up in the wee hours of the morning.
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Faith is a real power, not just an expression of belief.
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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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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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There is a falsehood that some are born with an attraction to their own kind, with nothing they can do about it. They are just ‘that way’ and can only yield to those desires. That is a malicious and destructive lie. While it is a convincing idea to some, it is of the devil.
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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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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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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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One of the adversary’s sharpest tools is to convince us that we are no longer worthy to pray. No matter who you are or what you may have done, you can always pray.
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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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