One who can control his thoughts has conquered himself.
BOYD K. PACKERThroughout your life there may be times when you have gone places you never should have gone and done things you never should have done.
More Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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If prayer is to leave the public schools, let the ridicule of prayer leave also.
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The flak is always the heaviest closest to the target
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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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Mature love has a bliss not even imagined by newlyweds.
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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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We were given our agency. We must use it wisely and remain close to the Spirit; otherwise, we foolishly find ourselves yielding to the enticements of the adversary.
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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.
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In or out of marriage, abortion is not an individual choice. At a minimum, three lives are involved.
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No service in the Church or in the community transcends that given in the home.
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There is also an age-old excuse: “The devil made me do it.” Not so! He can deceive you and mislead you, but he does not have the power to force you or anyone else to transgress or to keep you in transgression.
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The gospel stands as true for those who reject it as for those who accept it – both will be judged by it.
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I have a hard time with historians because they idolize the truth. The truth is not uplifting; it destroys. I could tell most of the secretaries in the church office building that they are ugly and fat. That would be the truth, but it would hurt and destroy them.
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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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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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If you have seen one of the temples at night, fully lighted, you know what an impressive sight that can be.
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