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.
BOYD K. PACKERSome people think a miracle is only a miracle if it happens instantaneously, but miracles can grow slowly and patience and faith can compel things to happen that otherwise never would have come to pass.
More Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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Tolerance is a virtue, but like all virtues, when exaggerated, it transforms itself into a vice. We need to be careful of the “tolerance trap” so that we are not swallowed up in it.
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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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The purest, most beautiful and appealing experiences of life: romance, love, marriage, and parenthood.
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The house of the Lord, bathed in light, standing out in the darkness, becomes symbolic of the power and the inspiration of the gospel of Jesus Christ standing as a beacon in a world that sinks ever further into spiritual darkness.
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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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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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Devotion to the family and devotion to the Church are not different and separate things.
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There are many things about living the gospel of Jesus Christ that cannot be measured by that which is counted or charted in records of attendance.
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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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In or out of marriage, abortion is not an individual choice. At a minimum, three lives are involved.
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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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There are spiritual and physical laws to obey if we are to be happy.
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The permissiveness afforded by the weakening of the laws of the land to tolerate legalized acts of immorality does not reduce the serious spiritual consequence that is the result of the violation of God’s law of chastity.
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Some things that are true are not very useful.
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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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