There are spiritual and physical laws to obey if we are to be happy.
BOYD K. PACKERThoughts, 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.
More Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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Hit the ‘delete’ button when you have unrighteous thoughts.
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Devotion to the family and devotion to the Church are not different and separate things.
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Do you realize how marvelous it is that you can call upon the Atonement? The Lord effected the Atonement for our sakes. And there isn’t anything that you can’t repent from and that you can’t be rescued from if you will repent and be determined to make the decision.
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At the temple the dust of distraction seems to settle out, the fog and the haze seem to lift, and we can ‘see’ things that we were not able to see before and find a way through our troubles that we had not previously known.
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In all that we do in the Church, we need to provide the way, as leaders, for parents and children to have time together as families.
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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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Life moves all too fast. When you feel weak, discouraged, depressed, or afraid, open the Book of Mormon and read.
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The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evil.
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We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see.
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There’s no credit buying on eternal things, none at all. Anything that is worthwhile has to be paid for in advance.
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Joseph’s vision of the Father and the Son opened this dispensation. Then came the Restoration of the fulness of the gospel of Jesus Christ with the same organization that existed in the primitive Church, built upon the foundation of apostles and prophets.
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In a sense, speaking figuratively, to take one’s agency, that precious gift which the scriptures make plain is essential to life itself, and say, “I will do as you direct,” is afterward to learn that in so doing you possess it all the more.
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There are few things more powerful than the faithful prayers of a righteous mother.
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If you have seen one of the temples at night, fully lighted, you know what an impressive sight that can be.
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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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