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.
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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It has to be an awfully good meeting to beat having no meeting at all.
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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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Mature love has a bliss not even imagined by newlyweds.
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Take hold of your life and order yourself to be valiant.
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The spiritually starving hesitate to partake of the Spirit like a child’s reaction to new and strange food. They must be offered a tiny bite on a spoon.
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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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The flak is always the heaviest closest to the target
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In all that we do in the Church, we need to provide the way, as leaders, for parents and children to have time together as families.
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Music can set an atmosphere of worship which invites [the] spirit of revelation, of testimony.
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No pain will last forever. It is not easy, but life was never meant to be either easy or fair. Repentance and the lasting hope that forgiveness brings will always be worth the effort.
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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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Thoughts, like water, will stay on course if we make a place for them to go. As you learn to control your thoughts, you can gain courage, conquer fear and have a happy life.
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Our whole social order could self-destruct over the obsession with freedom disconnected from responsibility; where choice is imagined to be somehow independent of consequences.
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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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One who can control his thoughts has conquered himself.
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