When temptation comes, you can invent a delete key in your mind- perhaps the words from a favorite hymn. Your mind is in charge; your body is the instrument of your mind.
BOYD K. PACKEROur lives are made up of thousands of everyday choices. Over the years these little choices will be bundled together and show clearly what we value.
More Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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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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Largely because of television, instead of looking over into that spacious building, we are, in effect, living inside of it. That is your fate in this generation. You are living in that great and spacious building.
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Music can set an atmosphere of worship which invites [the] spirit of revelation, of testimony.
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Progression: you can start from where you are.
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How grateful we are for you, our youth.
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I know that God is our Father. He introduced His Son, Jesus Christ, to Joseph Smith. I declare to you that I know that Jesus is the Christ. I know that He lives. He was born in the meridian of time.
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The purest, most beautiful and appealing experiences of life: romance, love, marriage, and parenthood.
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If prayer is to leave the public schools, let the ridicule of prayer leave also.
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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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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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One thing is very clear: the safest place and the best protection against the moral and spiritual diseases is a stable home and family. This has always been true; it will be true forever. We must keep that foremost in our minds.
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Faith is a real power, not just an expression of belief.
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The answer is the same for everyone: we must, and we can, resist temptations of any kind.
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One who can control his thoughts has conquered himself.
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If you stumble, rise up, go on.
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