Hit the ‘delete’ button when you have unrighteous thoughts.
BOYD K. PACKERFear is the opposite of faith. We move forward, certain that the Lord will watch over us, particularly in the family.
More Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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Our whole social order could self-destruct over the obsession with freedom disconnected from responsibility; where choice is imagined to be somehow independent of consequences.
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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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It is in the ordinances of the temple that we are placed under covenant to Him….[If] we will enter into our covenants without reservation or apology, the Lord will protect us. We will receive inspiration sufficient for the challenges of life.
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Young men speak about the future because they have no past, and old men speak of the past because they have no future.
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The permissiveness afforded by the weakening of the laws of the land to tolerate legalized acts of immorality does not reduce the serious spiritual consequence that is the result of the violation of God’s law of chastity.
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Mature love has a bliss not even imagined by newlyweds.
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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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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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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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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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The purest, most beautiful and appealing experiences of life: romance, love, marriage, and parenthood.
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You ought to know that the Lord loves you. He will make that known to you, and it will be a very private and individual experience, something you cannot explain to anyone else.
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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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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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Christ’s mercy is the mighty healer; even to the wounded innocent.
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