Everything that I have learned from the revelations and from life convinces me that there is time and to spare for you to carefully prepare for a long life.
BOYD K. PACKERIf prayer is to leave the public schools, let the ridicule of prayer leave also.
More Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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Music can set an atmosphere of worship which invites [the] spirit of revelation, of testimony.
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The gospel stands as true for those who reject it as for those who accept it – both will be judged by it.
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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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Those who choose, conduct, present, and accompany the music may influence the spirit of reverence … more than a speaker does.
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Throughout your life there may be times when you have gone places you never should have gone and done things you never should have done.
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When some unworthy thought pushes into your mind, replace it with your delete key. Worthy music is powerful and can help you control your thoughts.
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The gift of the Holy Ghost operates equally with men, women, and even little children. It is within this wondrous gift and power that the spiritual remedy to any problem can be found.
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If you stumble, rise up, go on.
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Often, very often, we are punished as much by our sins as we are for them.
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Latter-day Saints are not obedient because they are compelled to be obedient. They are obedient because they know certain spiritual truths and have decided, as an expression of their own individual agency, to obey the commandments of God. . . .
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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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We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see.
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Tolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice.
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We 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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Christ’s mercy is the mighty healer; even to the wounded innocent.
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