If the word is tolerance, grab that one, too, saying, “I expect you to be tolerant of my lifestyle-obedience, integrity, abstinence, repentance.” If the word is choice, tell them you choose good, old-fashioned morality.
BOYD K. PACKERSeek worthy companions. Attend church faithfully. Never fail daily to seek for help through prayer. And I promise you that the way will be easier and you shall have a composure of mind and a confident attitude toward life and the future.
More Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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Do not ever disturb prelude music for others, for reverence is essential to revelation
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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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Tolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice.
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The flak is always the heaviest closest to the target
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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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Moral standards cannot be changed by battle and cannot be changed by ballot.
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One of the adversary’s sharpest tools is to convince us that we are no longer worthy to pray. No matter who you are or what you may have done, you can always pray.
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If you will turn away from sin, you will be able one day to know the peace that comes from following the pathway of complete repentance.
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The Atonement has practical, personal, everyday value; apply it in your life. It can be activated with so simple a beginning as prayer.
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Teach our members that if they have a good, miserable day once in a while, or several in a row, to stand steady and face them. Things will straighten out. There is great purpose in our struggle in life.
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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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Historians should tell only that part of the truth that is inspiring and uplifting.
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You always hold the key of repentance to unlock the prison door. If they throw the word diversity at you, grab hold of it and say, “I am already diverse, and I intend to stay diverse.”
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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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Devotion to the family and devotion to the Church are not different and separate things.
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