Freedom is not a self-preserving gift. It has to be earned, and it has to be protected.
BOYD K. PACKERMature love has a bliss not even imagined by newlyweds.
More Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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Moral standards cannot be changed by battle and cannot be changed by ballot.
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Do not ever disturb prelude music for others, for reverence is essential to revelation
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Justice can seem to be so very demanding. But we must learn that when we put everything as right as we can put it right, it is Justice who invokes the Atonement, orders the adversary off our property, and posts the notice that his agents will make no more collections from us.
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We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see.
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I know that God is our Father. He introduced His Son, Jesus Christ, to Joseph Smith. I declare to you that I know that Jesus is the Christ. I know that He lives. He was born in the meridian of time.
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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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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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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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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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The idea that life began with mortal birth is preposterous. There is no way to explain life if you believe that.
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Like most things of great worth, knowledge which is of eternal value comes only through personal prayer and pondering.
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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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In or out of marriage, abortion is not an individual choice. At a minimum, three lives are involved.
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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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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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