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BOYD K. PACKERRepentance 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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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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Latter-day Saints are not obedient because they are compelled to be obedient. They are obedient because they know certain spiritual truths and have decided, as an expression of their own individual agency, to obey the commandments of God. . . .
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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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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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I have a hard time with historians because they idolize the truth. The truth is not uplifting; it destroys. I could tell most of the secretaries in the church office building that they are ugly and fat. That would be the truth, but it would hurt and destroy them.
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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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No teaching is equal, more spiritually rewarding, or more exalting than that of a mother teaching her children.
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Music can set an atmosphere of worship which invites [the] spirit of revelation, of testimony.
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Thoughts, like water, will stay on course if we make a place for them to go. As you learn to control your thoughts, you can gain courage, conquer fear and have a happy life.
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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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No service in the Church or in the community transcends that given in the home.
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Happily ever after never happens in the second act.
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The flak is always the heaviest closest to the target
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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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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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