Repentance is the key with which we can unlock the prison from inside. We hold that key within our hands, and agency is ours to use it.
BOYD K. PACKERNo 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.
More Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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There are few things more powerful than the faithful prayers of a righteous mother.
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There are spiritual and physical laws to obey if we are to be happy.
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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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Often, very often, we are punished as much by our sins as we are for them.
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Addiction has the capacity to disconnect the human will and nullify moral agency. It can rob one of the power to decide.
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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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I have a hard time with historians because they idolize the truth. The truth is not uplifting; it destroys. I could tell most of the secretaries in the church office building that they are ugly and fat. That would be the truth, but it would hurt and destroy them.
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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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No teaching is equal, more spiritually rewarding, or more exalting than that of a mother teaching her children.
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The atonement of Christ is not just for those who sin. The mercy of Christ encompasses all pain.
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The Spirit is a voice that one feels more than hears.
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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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If you stumble, rise up, go on.
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How grateful we are for you, our youth.
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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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