Life moves all too fast. When you feel weak, discouraged, depressed, or afraid, open the Book of Mormon and read.
BOYD K. PACKERYou have that same agency. Use it wisely to deny acting on any impure impulse or unholy temptation that may come into your mind. Just do not go there, and if you are already there, come back out of it. ‘Deny yourselves of all ungodliness’ (Moroni 10:32).
More Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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Every soul confined in a prison of sin, guilt, or perversion has a key to the gate. The key is labeled “repentance.” If you know how to use this key, the adversary cannot hold you.
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Christ’s mercy is the mighty healer; even to the wounded innocent.
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The Restoration began with the prayer of a 14-year-old boy and a vision of the Father and the Son. The dispensation of the fulness of times was ushered in.
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Parents now are concerned about the moral and spiritual diseases. These can have terrible complications when standards and values are abandoned. We must all take protective measures.
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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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Tolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice.
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The purest, most beautiful and appealing experiences of life: romance, love, marriage, and parenthood.
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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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If you need a transfusion of spiritual strength then just ask for it. We call that Prayer. Prayer is powerful spiritual medicine.
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In a sense, speaking figuratively, to take one’s agency, that precious gift which the scriptures make plain is essential to life itself, and say, “I will do as you direct,” is afterward to learn that in so doing you possess it all the more.
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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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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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If prayer is to leave the public schools, let the ridicule of prayer leave also.
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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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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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