Historians should tell only that part of the truth that is inspiring and uplifting.
BOYD K. PACKERProgression: you can start from where you are.
More Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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Parents now are concerned about the moral and spiritual diseases. These can have terrible complications when standards and values are abandoned. We must all take protective measures.
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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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Those who choose, conduct, present, and accompany the music may influence the spirit of reverence … more than a speaker does.
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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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I’ve learned the power of the dictum, “Early to bed, early to rise.” When I’m under pressure, you won’t find me burning the midnight oil. I’d much rather be in bed early and getting up in the wee hours of the morning.
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I do not think it pleases the Lord when we worry because we think we never do enough or that what we do is never good enough.
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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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The Restoration began with the prayer of a 14-year-old boy and a vision of the Father and the Son. The dispensation of the fulness of times was ushered in.
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I do not think it pleases the Lord when we worry because we think we never do enough or that what we do is never good enough….Some needlessly carry a heavy burden of guilt which could be removed through confession and repentance.
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The Spirit is a voice that one feels more than hears.
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How grateful we are for you, our youth.
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Do not ever disturb prelude music for others, for reverence is essential to revelation
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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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Music can set an atmosphere of worship which invites [the] spirit of revelation, of testimony.
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If you need a transfusion of spiritual strength then just ask for it. We call that Prayer. Prayer is powerful spiritual medicine.
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