This great circle of sisters will be a protection for each of you and for your families. The Relief Society might be likened to a refuge- the place of safety and protection- the sanctuary of ancient times. You will be safe within it. It encircles each sister like a protecting wall.
BOYD K. PACKERProgression: you can start from where you are.
More Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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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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Hit the ‘delete’ button when you have unrighteous thoughts.
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Family time is sacred time and should be protected and respected.
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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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Arms now empty will be filled and hearts now hurting from broken dreams and yearning will be healed.
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The flak is always the heaviest closest to the target
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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.
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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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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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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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The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evil.
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Tolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice.
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Do not ever disturb prelude music for others, for reverence is essential to revelation
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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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In a sense, speaking figuratively, to take one’s agency, that precious gift which the scriptures make plain is essential to life itself, and say, “I will do as you direct,” is afterward to learn that in so doing you possess it all the more.
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