It was meant to be that life would be a challenge. To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal.
BOYD K. PACKERThe Atonement has practical, personal, everyday value; apply it in your life. It can be activated with so simple a beginning as prayer.
More Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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One thing is very clear: the safest place and the best protection against the moral and spiritual diseases is a stable home and family. This has always been true; it will be true forever. We must keep that foremost in our minds.
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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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The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evil.
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I do not think it pleases the Lord when we worry because we think we never do enough or that what we do is never good enough….Some needlessly carry a heavy burden of guilt which could be removed through confession and repentance.
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You ought to know that the Lord loves you. He will make that known to you, and it will be a very private and individual experience, something you cannot explain to anyone else.
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Moral standards cannot be changed by battle and cannot be changed by ballot.
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Devotion to the family and devotion to the Church are not different and separate things.
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Faith is a real power, not just an expression of belief.
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There are many things about living the gospel of Jesus Christ that cannot be measured by that which is counted or charted in records of attendance.
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No service in the Church or in the community transcends that given in the home.
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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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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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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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We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see.
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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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