It has to be an awfully good meeting to beat having no meeting at all.
BOYD K. PACKEROne 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.
More Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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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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The flak is always the heaviest closest to the target
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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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Music can set an atmosphere of worship which invites [the] spirit of revelation, of testimony.
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He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty” – Lao-tsu One who can control his thoughts has conquered himself.
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The spiritually starving hesitate to partake of the Spirit like a child’s reaction to new and strange food. They must be offered a tiny bite on a spoon.
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Some people think a miracle is only a miracle if it happens instantaneously, but miracles can grow slowly and patience and faith can compel things to happen that otherwise never would have come to pass.
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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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If you are burdened with depressing feelings of guilt or disappointment, of failure or shame, there is a cure.
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You ought to know that the Lord loves you. He will make that known to you, and it will be a very private and individual experience, something you cannot explain to anyone else.
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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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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!
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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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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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If you will turn away from sin, you will be able one day to know the peace that comes from following the pathway of complete repentance.
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