The atonement of Christ is not just for those who sin. The mercy of Christ encompasses all pain.
BOYD K. PACKERThe flak is always the heaviest closest to the target
More Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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Often, very often, we are punished as much by our sins as we are for them.
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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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When temptation comes, you can invent a delete key in your mind- perhaps the words from a favorite hymn. Your mind is in charge; your body is the instrument of your mind.
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If you understand the great plan of happiness and follow it, what goes on in the world will not determine your happiness.
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Our whole social order could self-destruct over the obsession with freedom disconnected from responsibility; where choice is imagined to be somehow independent of consequences.
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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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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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Faith, to be faith, must walk to the edge of the light, and then a few steps into the darkness. If everything has to be known, if everything has to be explained, if everything has to be certified, then there is no need for faith. Indeed, there is no room for it.
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Addiction has the capacity to disconnect the human will and nullify moral agency. It can rob one of the power to decide.
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Keep the fire of your testimony of the restored gospel and your witness of our Redeemer burning so brightly that our children can warm their hands by the fire of your faith.
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The scriptures hold the keys to spiritual protection.
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Parents now are concerned about the moral and spiritual diseases. These can have terrible complications when standards and values are abandoned. We must all take protective measures.
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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 or out of marriage, abortion is not an individual choice. At a minimum, three lives are involved.
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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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