When some unworthy thought pushes into your mind, replace it with your delete key. Worthy music is powerful and can help you control your thoughts.
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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The gift of the Holy Ghost operates equally with men, women, and even little children. It is within this wondrous gift and power that the spiritual remedy to any problem can be found.
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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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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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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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A testimony of the hope of redemption is something which cannot be measured or counted. Jesus Christ is the source of that hope.
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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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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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The house of the Lord, bathed in light, standing out in the darkness, becomes symbolic of the power and the inspiration of the gospel of Jesus Christ standing as a beacon in a world that sinks ever further into spiritual darkness.
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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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Those who choose, conduct, present, and accompany the music may influence the spirit of reverence … more than a speaker does.
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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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Take hold of your life and order yourself to be valiant.
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Faith, to be faith, must walk to the edge of the light, and then a few steps into the darkness. If everything has to be known, if everything has to be explained, if everything has to be certified, then there is no need for faith. Indeed, there is no room for it.
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There is also an age-old excuse: “The devil made me do it.” Not so! He can deceive you and mislead you, but he does not have the power to force you or anyone else to transgress or to keep you in transgression.
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Music can set an atmosphere of worship which invites [the] spirit of revelation, of testimony.
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