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. PACKERMusic can set an atmosphere of worship which invites [the] spirit of revelation, of testimony.
More Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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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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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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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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If you will turn away from sin, you will be able one day to know the peace that comes from following the pathway of complete repentance.
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Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.
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We are able to feel and learn very quickly through music, through art, through poetry some spiritual things that we would otherwise learn very slowly.
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One who can control his thoughts has conquered himself.
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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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The purest, most beautiful and appealing experiences of life: romance, love, marriage, and parenthood.
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Our 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.
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We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see.
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If you have seen one of the temples at night, fully lighted, you know what an impressive sight that can be.
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Temple. One other word is equal in importance to a Latter-day Saint. Home. Put the words holy temple and home together, and you have described the house of the Lord!
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We could be like a father determined to provide everything for his family. He devotes every energy to that end and succeeds; only then does he discover that what they needed most, to be together as a family, has been neglected. And he reaps sorrow in place of contentment.
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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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