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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More Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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No service in the Church or in the community transcends that given in the home.
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Some things that are true are not very useful.
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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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Do not ever disturb prelude music for others, for reverence is essential to revelation
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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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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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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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The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ has the nourishing power to heal starving spirits of the world.
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There is little to be gained by seeking after the mysteries, for there is hardly time in a lifetime to master the plain and precious things.
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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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Just as chalk can be removed from a chalkboard, with sincere repentance, the effects of our transgression can be erased through the atonement of Jesus Christ.
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Tolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice.
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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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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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You have that same agency. Use it wisely to deny acting on any impure impulse or unholy temptation that may come into your mind. Just do not go there, and if you are already there, come back out of it. ‘Deny yourselves of all ungodliness’ (Moroni 10:32).
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