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.
BOYD K. PACKERI 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.
More Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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The idea that life began with mortal birth is preposterous. There is no way to explain life if you believe that.
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Do not ever disturb prelude music for others, for reverence is essential to revelation
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If our view is limited to mortal life, some things become unbearable because they seem so unfair and so permanent.
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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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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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Music can set an atmosphere of worship which invites [the] spirit of revelation, of testimony.
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Throughout your life there may be times when you have gone places you never should have gone and done things you never should have done.
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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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It has to be an awfully good meeting to beat having no meeting at all.
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In or out of marriage, abortion is not an individual choice. At a minimum, three lives are involved.
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How grateful we are for you, our youth.
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Justice can seem to be so very demanding. But we must learn that when we put everything as right as we can put it right, it is Justice who invokes the Atonement, orders the adversary off our property, and posts the notice that his agents will make no more collections from us.
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The purest, most beautiful and appealing experiences of life: romance, love, marriage, and parenthood.
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Devotion to the family and devotion to the Church are not different and separate things.
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