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. PACKERWe are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see.
More Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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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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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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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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I’m not ashamed to say that I want to be good. And I’ve found in my life that it has been critically important to establish this intention between me and the Lord so that I knew that HE knew which way I committed my agency.
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If you understand the great plan of happiness and follow it, what goes on in the world will not determine your happiness.
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Temple. One other word is equal in importance to a Latter-day Saint. Home. Put the words holy temple and home together, and you have described the house of the Lord!
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The spiritually starving hesitate to partake of the Spirit like a child’s reaction to new and strange food. They must be offered a tiny bite on a spoon.
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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 answer is the same for everyone: we must, and we can, resist temptations of any kind.
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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’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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Do not ever disturb prelude music for others, for reverence is essential to revelation
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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.
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Devotion to the family and devotion to the Church are not different and separate things.
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It is in the ordinances of the temple that we are placed under covenant to Him….[If] we will enter into our covenants without reservation or apology, the Lord will protect us. We will receive inspiration sufficient for the challenges of life.
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