The spiritually starving hesitate to partake of the Spirit like a child’s reaction to new and strange food. They must be offered a tiny bite on a spoon.
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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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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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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Moral standards cannot be changed by battle and cannot be changed by ballot.
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How grateful we are for you, our youth.
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There are spiritual and physical laws to obey if we are to be happy.
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The first gift that Adam and Eve received was agency: ‘Thou mayest choose for thyself, for it is given unto thee’ (Moses 3:17).
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When temptation comes, you can invent a delete key in your mind- perhaps the words from a favorite hymn. Your mind is in charge; your body is the instrument of your mind.
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No one of us can survive in the world of today, much less what it will become, without personal inspiration.
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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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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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In the eternal scheme of things – not always in mortality – righteous yearning and longing will be fulfilled.
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Everything that I have learned from the revelations and from life convinces me that there is time and to spare for you to carefully prepare for a long life.
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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.
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Often, very often, we are punished as much by our sins as we are for them.
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The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evil.
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