The end of all activity in the church is to see that a man and a woman with their children are happy at home, sealed for eternity.
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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Seek worthy companions. Attend church faithfully. Never fail daily to seek for help through prayer. And I promise you that the way will be easier and you shall have a composure of mind and a confident attitude toward life and the future.
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Teach our members that if they have a good, miserable day once in a while, or several in a row, to stand steady and face them. Things will straighten out. There is great purpose in our struggle in life.
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There’s no credit buying on eternal things, none at all. Anything that is worthwhile has to be paid for in advance.
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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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In the eternal scheme of things – not always in mortality – righteous yearning and longing will be fulfilled.
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It has to be an awfully good meeting to beat having no meeting at all.
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Mature love has a bliss not even imagined by newlyweds.
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One thing is very clear: the safest place and the best protection against the moral and spiritual diseases is a stable home and family. This has always been true; it will be true forever. We must keep that foremost in our minds.
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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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Young men speak about the future because they have no past, and old men speak of the past because they have no future.
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Like most things of great worth, knowledge which is of eternal value comes only through personal prayer and pondering.
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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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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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This great circle of sisters will be a protection for each of you and for your families. The Relief Society might be likened to a refuge- the place of safety and protection- the sanctuary of ancient times. You will be safe within it. It encircles each sister like a protecting wall.
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I have a hard time with historians because they idolize the truth. The truth is not uplifting; it destroys. I could tell most of the secretaries in the church office building that they are ugly and fat. That would be the truth, but it would hurt and destroy them.
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