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.
BOYD K. PACKERTolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice.
More Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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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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If our view is limited to mortal life, some things become unbearable because they seem so unfair and so permanent.
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Temple. One other word is equal in importance to a Latter-day Saint. Home. Put the words holy temple and home together, and you have described the house of the Lord!
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The scriptures hold the keys to spiritual protection.
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The ultimate effort of everything in the Church is to the end that a father and a mother and their children can be happy at home. If they are happy at home, they are spiritually prepared for whatever should be ahead of them in the world.
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We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see.
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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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The first gift that Adam and Eve received was agency: ‘Thou mayest choose for thyself, for it is given unto thee’ (Moses 3:17).
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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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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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What a wonderful time to be young. You will see events in your lifetime that will test your courage and extend your faith. If you will face the sunlight of truth, the shadows of discouragement and sin and error will fall behind you. You must never give up!
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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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In or out of marriage, abortion is not an individual choice. At a minimum, three lives are involved.
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Arms now empty will be filled and hearts now hurting from broken dreams and yearning will be healed.
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A testimony is a testimony, and it should be respected, whether it is small or large.
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