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.”
BOYD K. PACKERParents now are concerned about the moral and spiritual diseases. These can have terrible complications when standards and values are abandoned. We must all take protective measures.
More Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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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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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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Historians should tell only that part of the truth that is inspiring and uplifting.
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If you are burdened with depressing feelings of guilt or disappointment, of failure or shame, there is a cure.
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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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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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Despite the opposition, trials, and temptations, you need not fail or fear.
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Hit the ‘delete’ button when you have unrighteous thoughts.
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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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Music can set an atmosphere of worship which invites [the] spirit of revelation, of testimony.
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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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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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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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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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Tolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice.
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