Faith is a real power, not just an expression of belief.
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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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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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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Music can set an atmosphere of worship which invites [the] spirit of revelation, of testimony.
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Fear is the opposite of faith. We move forward, certain that the Lord will watch over us, particularly in the family.
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There is a falsehood that some are born with an attraction to their own kind, with nothing they can do about it. They are just ‘that way’ and can only yield to those desires. That is a malicious and destructive lie. While it is a convincing idea to some, it is of the devil.
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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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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 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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We live in a day when the adversary stresses on every hand the philosophy of instant gratification. We seem to demand instant everything, including instant solutions to our problems. . .
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The house of the Lord, bathed in light, standing out in the darkness, becomes symbolic of the power and the inspiration of the gospel of Jesus Christ standing as a beacon in a world that sinks ever further into spiritual darkness.
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The purest, most beautiful and appealing experiences of life: romance, love, marriage, and parenthood.
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Happiness will depend on what each of us does with what each has, what we learn from what we do, and what we do thereafter.
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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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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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