It has to be an awfully good meeting to beat having no meeting at all.
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.
More Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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Happiness will depend on what each of us does with what each has, what we learn from what we do, and what we do thereafter.
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Despite the opposition, trials, and temptations, you need not fail or fear.
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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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Some people think a miracle is only a miracle if it happens instantaneously, but miracles can grow slowly and patience and faith can compel things to happen that otherwise never would have come to pass.
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The purest, most beautiful and appealing experiences of life: romance, love, marriage, and parenthood.
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Mature love has a bliss not even imagined by newlyweds.
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Freedom is not a self-preserving gift. It has to be earned, and it has to be protected.
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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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We were given our agency. We must use it wisely and remain close to the Spirit; otherwise, we foolishly find ourselves yielding to the enticements of the adversary.
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Often, very often, we are punished as much by our sins as we are for them.
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No service in the Church or in the community transcends that given in the home.
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Our whole social order could self-destruct over the obsession with freedom disconnected from responsibility; where choice is imagined to be somehow independent of consequences.
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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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Moral standards cannot be changed by battle and cannot be changed by ballot.
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Some things that are true are not very useful.
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