This great circle of sisters will be a protection for each of you and for your families. The Relief Society might be likened to a refuge- the place of safety and protection- the sanctuary of ancient times. You will be safe within it. It encircles each sister like a protecting wall.
BOYD K. PACKERThere are few things more powerful than the faithful prayers of a righteous mother.
More Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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I’ve learned the power of the dictum, “Early to bed, early to rise.” When I’m under pressure, you won’t find me burning the midnight oil. I’d much rather be in bed early and getting up in the wee hours of the morning.
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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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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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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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Family time is sacred time and should be protected and respected.
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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 whole social order could self-destruct over the obsession with freedom disconnected from responsibility; where choice is imagined to be somehow independent of consequences.
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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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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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Husbands and wives should understand that their first calling-from which they will never be released-is to one another and then to their children.
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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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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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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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Joseph’s vision of the Father and the Son opened this dispensation. Then came the Restoration of the fulness of the gospel of Jesus Christ with the same organization that existed in the primitive Church, built upon the foundation of apostles and prophets.
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Moral standards cannot be changed by battle and cannot be changed by ballot.
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