If you need a transfusion of spiritual strength then just ask for it. We call that Prayer. Prayer is powerful spiritual medicine.
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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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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There 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.
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The Spirit is a voice that one feels more than hears.
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We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see.
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Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.
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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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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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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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If you stumble, rise up, go on.
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The house of the Lord, bathed in light, standing out in the darkness, becomes symbolic of the power and the inspiration of the gospel of Jesus Christ standing as a beacon in a world that sinks ever further into spiritual darkness.
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One of the adversary’s sharpest tools is to convince us that we are no longer worthy to pray. No matter who you are or what you may have done, you can always pray.
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Do 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.
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Christ’s mercy is the mighty healer; even to the wounded innocent.
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Somewhere there is a message in the protest of the man who said, “You can’t tell me that worry doesn’t help. The things I worry about never happen.”
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