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.
BOYD K. PACKERThe 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.
More Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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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.
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We live in a day when the adversary stresses on every hand the philosophy of instant gratification. We seem to demand instant everything, including instant solutions to our problems. . .
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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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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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Music can set an atmosphere of worship which invites [the] spirit of revelation, of testimony.
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Somewhere there is a message in the protest of the man who said, “You can’t tell me that worry doesn’t help. The things I worry about never happen.”
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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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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 purest, most beautiful and appealing experiences of life: romance, love, marriage, and parenthood.
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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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The gospel stands as true for those who reject it as for those who accept it – both will be judged by it.
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The end of all activity in the church is to see that a man and a woman with their children are happy at home, sealed for eternity.
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No service in the Church or in the community transcends that given in the home.
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Husbands and wives should understand that their first calling-from which they will never be released-is to one another and then to their children.
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Some worry endlessly over missions that were missed, or marriages that did not turn out, or babies that did not arrive, or children that seem lost, or dreams unfulfilled, or because age limits what they can do.
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