If you are burdened with depressing feelings of guilt or disappointment, of failure or shame, there is a cure.
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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No one of us can survive in the world of today, much less what it will become, without personal inspiration.
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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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The answer is the same for everyone: we must, and we can, resist temptations of any kind.
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I’ve learned the power of the dictum, “Early to bed, early to rise.” When I’m under pressure, you won’t find me burning the midnight oil. I’d much rather be in bed early and getting up in the wee hours of the morning.
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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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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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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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If prayer is to leave the public schools, let the ridicule of prayer leave also.
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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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Life moves all too fast. When you feel weak, discouraged, depressed, or afraid, open the Book of Mormon and read.
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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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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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The flak is always the heaviest closest to the target
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The Spirit is a voice that one feels more than hears.
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I have a hard time with historians because they idolize the truth. The truth is not uplifting; it destroys. I could tell most of the secretaries in the church office building that they are ugly and fat. That would be the truth, but it would hurt and destroy them.
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