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.
BOYD K. PACKERThe scriptures hold the keys to spiritual protection.
More Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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It has to be an awfully good meeting to beat having no meeting at all.
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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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It was meant to be that life would be a challenge. To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal.
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Take hold of your life and order yourself to be valiant.
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No 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.
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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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This shield of faith is best fabricated in a cottage industry. While the shield can be polished in classes in the Church and in activities, it is meant to be handcrafted in the home and fitted to each individual.
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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 ultimate effort of everything in the Church is to the end that a father and a mother and their children can be happy at home. If they are happy at home, they are spiritually prepared for whatever should be ahead of them in the world.
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If you are burdened with depressing feelings of guilt or disappointment, of failure or shame, there is a cure.
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Christ’s mercy is the mighty healer; even to the wounded innocent.
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Freedom is not a self-preserving gift. It has to be earned, and it has to be protected.
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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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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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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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