Despite the opposition, trials, and temptations, you need not fail or fear.
BOYD K. PACKERSome things that are true are not very useful.
More Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see.
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Happily ever after never happens in the second act.
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The Spirit is a voice that one feels more than hears.
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How grateful we are for you, our youth.
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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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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.
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Everything that I have learned from the revelations and from life convinces me that there is time and to spare for you to carefully prepare for a long life.
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Teach our members that if they have a good, miserable day once in a while, or several in a row, to stand steady and face them. Things will straighten out. There is great purpose in our struggle in life.
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The house of the Lord, bathed in light, standing out in the darkness, becomes symbolic of the power and the inspiration of the gospel of Jesus Christ standing as a beacon in a world that sinks ever further into spiritual darkness.
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Faith, to be faith, must walk to the edge of the light, and then a few steps into the darkness. If everything has to be known, if everything has to be explained, if everything has to be certified, then there is no need for faith. Indeed, there is no room for it.
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The scriptures speak of ‘the shield of faith wherewith,’ the Lord said, ‘ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked’ (D&C 27:17).
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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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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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The idea that life began with mortal birth is preposterous. There is no way to explain life if you believe that.
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Arms now empty will be filled and hearts now hurting from broken dreams and yearning will be healed.
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There are spiritual and physical laws to obey if we are to be happy.
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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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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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There is little to be gained by seeking after the mysteries, for there is hardly time in a lifetime to master the plain and precious things.
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In 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.
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If you need a transfusion of spiritual strength then just ask for it. We call that Prayer. Prayer is powerful spiritual medicine.
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Tolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice.
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Music can set an atmosphere of worship which invites [the] spirit of revelation, of testimony.
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Seek worthy companions. Attend church faithfully. Never fail daily to seek for help through prayer. And I promise you that the way will be easier and you shall have a composure of mind and a confident attitude toward life and the future.
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It was meant to be that life would be a challenge. To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal.
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Those who choose, conduct, present, and accompany the music may influence the spirit of reverence … more than a speaker does.
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