No pain will last forever. It is not easy, but life was never meant to be either easy or fair. Repentance and the lasting hope that forgiveness brings will always be worth the effort.
BOYD K. PACKERHappiness will depend on what each of us does with what each has, what we learn from what we do, and what we do thereafter.
More Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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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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The Restoration began with the prayer of a 14-year-old boy and a vision of the Father and the Son. The dispensation of the fulness of times was ushered in.
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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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A testimony is a testimony, and it should be respected, whether it is small or large.
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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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How grateful we are for you, our youth.
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No teaching is equal, more spiritually rewarding, or more exalting than that of a mother teaching her children.
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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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Mature love has a bliss not even imagined by newlyweds.
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We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see.
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Devotion to the family and devotion to the Church are not different and separate things.
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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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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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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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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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