There is also an age-old excuse: “The devil made me do it.” Not so! He can deceive you and mislead you, but he does not have the power to force you or anyone else to transgress or to keep you in transgression.
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More Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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No pain will last forever. It is not easy, but life was never meant to be either easy or fair. Repentance and the lasting hope that forgiveness brings will always be worth the effort.
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Mature love has a bliss not even imagined by newlyweds.
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Faith is a real power, not just an expression of belief.
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The Spirit is a voice that one feels more than hears.
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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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Historians should tell only that part of the truth that is inspiring and uplifting.
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Young men speak about the future because they have no past, and old men speak of the past because they have no future.
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Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.
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I know that God is our Father. He introduced His Son, Jesus Christ, to Joseph Smith. I declare to you that I know that Jesus is the Christ. I know that He lives. He was born in the meridian of time.
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The flak is always the heaviest closest to the target
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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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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 answer is the same for everyone: we must, and we can, resist temptations of any kind.
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Our lives are made up of thousands of everyday choices. Over the years these little choices will be bundled together and show clearly what we value.
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Some worry endlessly over missions that were missed, or marriages that did not turn out, or babies that did not arrive, or children that seem lost, or dreams unfulfilled, or because age limits what they can do.
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