The answer is the same for everyone: we must, and we can, resist temptations of any kind.
BOYD K. PACKERIn a sense, speaking figuratively, to take one’s agency, that precious gift which the scriptures make plain is essential to life itself, and say, “I will do as you direct,” is afterward to learn that in so doing you possess it all the more.
More Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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Do you realize how marvelous it is that you can call upon the Atonement? The Lord effected the Atonement for our sakes. And there isn’t anything that you can’t repent from and that you can’t be rescued from if you will repent and be determined to make the decision.
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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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Devotion to the family and devotion to the Church are not different and separate things.
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Fear is the opposite of faith. We move forward, certain that the Lord will watch over us, particularly in the family.
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Music can set an atmosphere of worship which invites [the] spirit of revelation, of testimony.
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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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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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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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Temple. One other word is equal in importance to a Latter-day Saint. Home. Put the words holy temple and home together, and you have described the house of the Lord!
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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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There are spiritual and physical laws to obey if we are to be happy.
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Tolerance is a virtue, but like all virtues, when exaggerated, it transforms itself into a vice. We need to be careful of the “tolerance trap” so that we are not swallowed up in it.
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Tolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice.
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A testimony is a testimony, and it should be respected, whether it is small or large.
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Freedom is not a self-preserving gift. It has to be earned, and it has to be protected.
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