The ultimate effort of everything in the Church is to the end that a father and a mother and their children can be happy at home. If they are happy at home, they are spiritually prepared for whatever should be ahead of them in the world.
BOYD K. PACKERSomewhere there is a message in the protest of the man who said, “You can’t tell me that worry doesn’t help. The things I worry about never happen.”
More Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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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….Some needlessly carry a heavy burden of guilt which could be removed through confession and repentance.
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There’s no credit buying on eternal things, none at all. Anything that is worthwhile has to be paid for in advance.
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I know that God is our Father. He introduced His Son, Jesus Christ, to Joseph Smith. I declare to you that I know that Jesus is the Christ. I know that He lives. He was born in the meridian of time.
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No service in the Church or in the community transcends that given in the home.
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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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If you stumble, rise up, go on.
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Progression: you can start from where you are.
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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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You always hold the key of repentance to unlock the prison door. If they throw the word diversity at you, grab hold of it and say, “I am already diverse, and I intend to stay diverse.”
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The atonement of Christ is not just for those who sin. The mercy of Christ encompasses all pain.
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The permissiveness afforded by the weakening of the laws of the land to tolerate legalized acts of immorality does not reduce the serious spiritual consequence that is the result of the violation of God’s law of chastity.
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Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.
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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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The flak is always the heaviest closest to the target
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There are spiritual and physical laws to obey if we are to be happy.
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