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.
BOYD K. PACKEREverything that I have learned from the revelations and from life convinces me that there is time and to spare for you to carefully prepare for a long life.
More Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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The Spirit is a voice that one feels more than hears.
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Devotion to the family and devotion to the Church are not different and separate things.
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One of the adversary’s sharpest tools is to convince us that we are no longer worthy to pray. No matter who you are or what you may have done, you can always pray.
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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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Repentance is the key with which we can unlock the prison from inside. We hold that key within our hands, and agency is ours to use it.
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Take hold of your life and order yourself to be valiant.
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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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Music can set an atmosphere of worship which invites [the] spirit of revelation, of testimony.
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In or out of marriage, abortion is not an individual choice. At a minimum, three lives are involved.
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Latter-day Saints are not obedient because they are compelled to be obedient. They are obedient because they know certain spiritual truths and have decided, as an expression of their own individual agency, to obey the commandments of God. . . .
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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 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 scriptures hold the keys to spiritual protection.
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Progression: you can start from where you are.
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If our view is limited to mortal life, some things become unbearable because they seem so unfair and so permanent.
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