We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see
BOYD K. PACKERThere’s no credit buying on eternal things, none at all. Anything that is worthwhile has to be paid for in advance.
More Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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Happily ever after never happens in the second act.
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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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There are few things more powerful than the faithful prayers of a righteous mother.
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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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Seek worthy companions. Attend church faithfully. Never fail daily to seek for help through prayer. And I promise you that the way will be easier and you shall have a composure of mind and a confident attitude toward life and the future.
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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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Largely because of television, instead of looking over into that spacious building, we are, in effect, living inside of it. That is your fate in this generation. You are living in that great and spacious building.
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If our view is limited to mortal life, some things become unbearable because they seem so unfair and so permanent.
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In the eternal scheme of things – not always in mortality – righteous yearning and longing will be fulfilled.
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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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The flak is always the heaviest closest to the target
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I do not think it pleases the Lord when we worry because we think we never do enough or that what we do is never good enough….Some needlessly carry a heavy burden of guilt which could be removed through confession and repentance.
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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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There is little to be gained by seeking after the mysteries, for there is hardly time in a lifetime to master the plain and precious things.
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I’m not ashamed to say that I want to be good. And I’ve found in my life that it has been critically important to establish this intention between me and the Lord so that I knew that HE knew which way I committed my agency.
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