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.
BOYD K. PACKERHe who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty” – Lao-tsu One who can control his thoughts has conquered himself.
More Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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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 atonement of Christ is not just for those who sin. The mercy of Christ encompasses all pain.
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Joseph’s vision of the Father and the Son opened this dispensation. Then came the Restoration of the fulness of the gospel of Jesus Christ with the same organization that existed in the primitive Church, built upon the foundation of apostles and prophets.
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I’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.
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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.
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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’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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In all that we do in the Church, we need to provide the way, as leaders, for parents and children to have time together as families.
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A testimony of the hope of redemption is something which cannot be measured or counted. Jesus Christ is the source of that hope.
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Our whole social order could self-destruct over the obsession with freedom disconnected from responsibility; where choice is imagined to be somehow independent of consequences.
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At the temple the dust of distraction seems to settle out, the fog and the haze seem to lift, and we can ‘see’ things that we were not able to see before and find a way through our troubles that we had not previously known.
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The purest, most beautiful and appealing experiences of life: romance, love, marriage, and parenthood.
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We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see
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Historians should tell only that part of the truth that is inspiring and uplifting.
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Life moves all too fast. When you feel weak, discouraged, depressed, or afraid, open the Book of Mormon and read.
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