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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We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see.
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I’ve learned the power of the dictum, “Early to bed, early to rise.” When I’m under pressure, you won’t find me burning the midnight oil. I’d much rather be in bed early and getting up in the wee hours of the morning.
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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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Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.
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The answer is the same for everyone: we must, and we can, resist temptations of any kind.
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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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There are few things more powerful than the faithful prayers of a righteous mother.
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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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If you need a transfusion of spiritual strength then just ask for it. We call that Prayer. Prayer is powerful spiritual medicine.
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Devotion to the family and devotion to the Church are not different and separate things.
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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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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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It has to be an awfully good meeting to beat having no meeting at all.
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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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Somewhere there is a message in the protest of the man who said, “You can’t tell me that worry doesn’t help. The things I worry about never happen.”
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