Take hold of your life and order yourself to be valiant.
BOYD K. PACKERThe gospel stands as true for those who reject it as for those who accept it – both will be judged by it.
More Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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No pain will last forever. It is not easy, but life was never meant to be either easy or fair. Repentance and the lasting hope that forgiveness brings will always be worth the effort.
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Progression: you can start from where you are.
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We could be like a father determined to provide everything for his family. He devotes every energy to that end and succeeds; only then does he discover that what they needed most, to be together as a family, has been neglected. And he reaps sorrow in place of contentment.
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No service in the Church or in the community transcends that given in the home.
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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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Parents now are concerned about the moral and spiritual diseases. These can have terrible complications when standards and values are abandoned. We must all take protective measures.
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We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see
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Some things that are true are not very useful.
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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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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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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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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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The ultimate effort of everything in the Church is to the end that a father and a mother and their children can be happy at home. If they are happy at home, they are spiritually prepared for whatever should be ahead of them in the world.
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Our lives are made up of thousands of everyday choices. Over the years these little choices will be bundled together and show clearly what we value.
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