We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see
BOYD K. PACKERChrist’s mercy is the mighty healer; even to the wounded innocent.
More Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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One 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.
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Behold, he who has repented of his sins, the same is forgiven, and I, the Lord, remember them no more.
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The purest, most beautiful and appealing experiences of life: romance, love, marriage, and parenthood.
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Historians should tell only that part of the truth that is inspiring and uplifting.
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In all that we do in the Church, we need to provide the way, as leaders, for parents and children to have time together as families.
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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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Hit the ‘delete’ button when you have unrighteous thoughts.
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Tolerance is a virtue, but like all virtues, when exaggerated, it transforms itself into a vice. We need to be careful of the “tolerance trap” so that we are not swallowed up in it.
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Family time is sacred time and should be protected and respected.
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Despite the opposition, trials, and temptations, you need not fail or fear.
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Justice can seem to be so very demanding. But we must learn that when we put everything as right as we can put it right, it is Justice who invokes the Atonement, orders the adversary off our property, and posts the notice that his agents will make no more collections from us.
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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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There are spiritual and physical laws to obey if we are to be happy.
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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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Devotion to the family and devotion to the Church are not different and separate things.
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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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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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What a wonderful time to be young. You will see events in your lifetime that will test your courage and extend your faith. If you will face the sunlight of truth, the shadows of discouragement and sin and error will fall behind you. You must never give up!
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Faith, to be faith, must walk to the edge of the light, and then a few steps into the darkness. If everything has to be known, if everything has to be explained, if everything has to be certified, then there is no need for faith. Indeed, there is no room for it.
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There’s no credit buying on eternal things, none at all. Anything that is worthwhile has to be paid for in advance.
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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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Fix that truth in your mind and hold to it. However many generations in your mortal ancestry, no matter what race or people you represent, the pedigree of your spirit can be written on a single line. You are a child of God!
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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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There are many things about living the gospel of Jesus Christ that cannot be measured by that which is counted or charted in records of attendance.
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You always hold the key of repentance to unlock the prison door. If they throw the word diversity at you, grab hold of it and say, “I am already diverse, and I intend to stay diverse.”
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