Happiness will depend on what each of us does with what each has, what we learn from what we do, and what we do thereafter.
BOYD K. PACKEREvery 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.
More Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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The gospel stands as true for those who reject it as for those who accept it – both will be judged by 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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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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Moral standards cannot be changed by battle and cannot be changed by ballot.
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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.
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Arms now empty will be filled and hearts now hurting from broken dreams and yearning will be healed.
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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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How grateful we are for you, our youth.
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We live in a day when the adversary stresses on every hand the philosophy of instant gratification. We seem to demand instant everything, including instant solutions to our problems. . .
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Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.
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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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Mature love has a bliss not even imagined by newlyweds.
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The flak is always the heaviest closest to the target
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Tolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice.
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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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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.
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Historians should tell only that part of the truth that is inspiring and uplifting.
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Latter-day Saints are not obedient because they are compelled to be obedient. They are obedient because they know certain spiritual truths and have decided, as an expression of their own individual agency, to obey the commandments of God. . . .
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The answer is the same for everyone: we must, and we can, resist temptations of any kind.
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Life moves all too fast. When you feel weak, discouraged, depressed, or afraid, open the Book of Mormon and read.
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At the temple the dust of distraction seems to settle out, the fog and the haze seem to lift, and we can ‘see’ things that we were not able to see before and find a way through our troubles that we had not previously known.
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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.
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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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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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We are able to feel and learn very quickly through music, through art, through poetry some spiritual things that we would otherwise learn very slowly.
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