In or out of marriage, abortion is not an individual choice. At a minimum, three lives are involved.
BOYD K. PACKERI’ve learned the power of the dictum, “Early to bed, early to rise.” When I’m under pressure, you won’t find me burning the midnight oil. I’d much rather be in bed early and getting up in the wee hours of the morning.
More Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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Take hold of your life and order yourself to be valiant.
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The Restoration began with the prayer of a 14-year-old boy and a vision of the Father and the Son. The dispensation of the fulness of times was ushered in.
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Fear is the opposite of faith. We move forward, certain that the Lord will watch over us, particularly in the family.
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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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Historians should tell only that part of the truth that is inspiring and uplifting.
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We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see
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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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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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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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Happily ever after never happens in the second act.
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You have that same agency. Use it wisely to deny acting on any impure impulse or unholy temptation that may come into your mind. Just do not go there, and if you are already there, come back out of it. ‘Deny yourselves of all ungodliness’ (Moroni 10:32).
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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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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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Some worry endlessly over missions that were missed, or marriages that did not turn out, or babies that did not arrive, or children that seem lost, or dreams unfulfilled, or because age limits what they can do.
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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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