The Spirit is a voice that one feels more than hears.
BOYD K. PACKERIf 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.
More Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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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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No service in the Church or in the community transcends that given in the home.
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Behold, he who has repented of his sins, the same is forgiven, and I, the Lord, remember them no more.
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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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Family time is sacred time and should be protected and respected.
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At the temple the dust of distraction seems to settle out, the fog and the haze seem to lift, and we can ‘see’ things that we were not able to see before and find a way through our troubles that we had not previously known.
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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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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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We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see
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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.
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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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In the eternal scheme of things – not always in mortality – righteous yearning and longing will be fulfilled.
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Do not ever disturb prelude music for others, for reverence is essential to revelation
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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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Justice can seem to be so very demanding. But we must learn that when we put everything as right as we can put it right, it is Justice who invokes the Atonement, orders the adversary off our property, and posts the notice that his agents will make no more collections from us.
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