If the word is tolerance, grab that one, too, saying, “I expect you to be tolerant of my lifestyle-obedience, integrity, abstinence, repentance.” If the word is choice, tell them you choose good, old-fashioned morality.
BOYD K. PACKERThe Spirit is a voice that one feels more than hears.
More Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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Music can set an atmosphere of worship which invites [the] spirit of revelation, of testimony.
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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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Despite the opposition, trials, and temptations, you need not fail or fear.
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We are able to feel and learn very quickly through music, through art, through poetry some spiritual things that we would otherwise learn very slowly.
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Throughout your life there may be times when you have gone places you never should have gone and done things you never should have done.
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Historians should tell only that part of the truth that is inspiring and uplifting.
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It was meant to be that life would be a challenge. To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal.
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Tolerance is a virtue, but like all virtues, when exaggerated, it transforms itself into a vice. We need to be careful of the “tolerance trap” so that we are not swallowed up in it.
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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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One who can control his thoughts has conquered himself.
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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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Fix that truth in your mind and hold to it. However many generations in your mortal ancestry, no matter what race or people you represent, the pedigree of your spirit can be written on a single line. You are a child of God!
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Everything that I have learned from the revelations and from life convinces me that there is time and to spare for you to carefully prepare for a long life.
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No one of us can survive in the world of today, much less what it will become, without personal inspiration.
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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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