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!
BOYD K. PACKERTemple. 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!
BOYD K. PACKERFaith, 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.
BOYD K. PACKERThe choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evil.
BOYD K. PACKERThose who choose, conduct, present, and accompany the music may influence the spirit of reverence … more than a speaker does.
BOYD K. PACKERJust as chalk can be removed from a chalkboard, with sincere repentance, the effects of our transgression can be erased through the atonement of Jesus Christ.
BOYD K. PACKERThe 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.
BOYD K. PACKERIt was meant to be that life would be a challenge. To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal.
BOYD K. PACKERDo you realize how marvelous it is that you can call upon the Atonement? The Lord effected the Atonement for our sakes. And there isn’t anything that you can’t repent from and that you can’t be rescued from if you will repent and be determined to make the decision.
BOYD K. PACKERThe purest, most beautiful and appealing experiences of life: romance, love, marriage, and parenthood.
BOYD K. PACKERThe 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. PACKERWe are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see.
BOYD K. PACKERThe Spirit is a voice that one feels more than hears.
BOYD K. PACKERThere 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.
BOYD K. PACKERParents 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.
BOYD K. PACKERFamily time is sacred time and should be protected and respected.
BOYD K. PACKERWe 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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