Moral standards cannot be changed by battle and cannot be changed by ballot.
BOYD K. PACKERA testimony is a testimony, and it should be respected, whether it is small or large.
More Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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Some people think a miracle is only a miracle if it happens instantaneously, but miracles can grow slowly and patience and faith can compel things to happen that otherwise never would have come to pass.
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Progression: you can start from where you are.
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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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If you understand the great plan of happiness and follow it, what goes on in the world will not determine your happiness.
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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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There is a falsehood that some are born with an attraction to their own kind, with nothing they can do about it. They are just ‘that way’ and can only yield to those desires. That is a malicious and destructive lie. While it is a convincing idea to some, it is of the devil.
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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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No teaching is equal, more spiritually rewarding, or more exalting than that of a mother teaching her children.
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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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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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It has to be an awfully good meeting to beat having no meeting at all.
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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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Somewhere there is a message in the protest of the man who said, “You can’t tell me that worry doesn’t help. The things I worry about never happen.”
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Like most things of great worth, knowledge which is of eternal value comes only through personal prayer and pondering.
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Addiction has the capacity to disconnect the human will and nullify moral agency. It can rob one of the power to decide.
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