There is a falsehood that some are born with an attraction to their own kind, with nothing they can do about it. They are just ‘that way’ and can only yield to those desires. That is a malicious and destructive lie. While it is a convincing idea to some, it is of the devil.
BOYD K. PACKERThe flak is always the heaviest closest to the target
More Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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Progression: you can start from where you are.
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Behold, he who has repented of his sins, the same is forgiven, and I, the Lord, remember them no more.
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In all that we do in the Church, we need to provide the way, as leaders, for parents and children to have time together as families.
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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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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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The gift of the Holy Ghost operates equally with men, women, and even little children. It is within this wondrous gift and power that the spiritual remedy to any problem can be found.
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In the eternal scheme of things – not always in mortality – righteous yearning and longing will be fulfilled.
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Tolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice.
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It has to be an awfully good meeting to beat having no meeting at all.
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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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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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There is little to be gained by seeking after the mysteries, for there is hardly time in a lifetime to master the plain and precious things.
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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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Mature love has a bliss not even imagined by newlyweds.
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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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