It has to be an awfully good meeting to beat having no meeting at all.
BOYD K. PACKERIf 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.
More Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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The idea that life began with mortal birth is preposterous. There is no way to explain life if you believe that.
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Happily ever after never happens in the second act.
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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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If you are burdened with depressing feelings of guilt or disappointment, of failure or shame, there is a cure.
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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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If you stumble, rise up, go on.
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Largely because of television, instead of looking over into that spacious building, we are, in effect, living inside of it. That is your fate in this generation. You are living in that great and spacious building.
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No service in the Church or in the community transcends that given in the home.
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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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Husbands and wives should understand that their first calling-from which they will never be released-is to one another and then to their children.
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Christ’s mercy is the mighty healer; even to the wounded innocent.
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We were given our agency. We must use it wisely and remain close to the Spirit; otherwise, we foolishly find ourselves yielding to the enticements of the adversary.
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Every soul confined in a prison of sin, guilt, or perversion has a key to the gate. The key is labeled “repentance.” If you know how to use this key, the adversary cannot hold you.
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What a wonderful time to be young. You will see events in your lifetime that will test your courage and extend your faith. If you will face the sunlight of truth, the shadows of discouragement and sin and error will fall behind you. You must never give up!
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If prayer is to leave the public schools, let the ridicule of prayer leave also.
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