Just as chalk can be removed from a chalkboard, with sincere repentance, the effects of our transgression can be erased through the atonement of Jesus Christ.
BOYD K. PACKERThe 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.
More Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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Mature love has a bliss not even imagined by newlyweds.
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Tolerance is a virtue, but like all virtues, when exaggerated, it transforms itself into a vice. We need to be careful of the “tolerance trap” so that we are not swallowed up in it.
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The flak is always the heaviest closest to the target
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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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Behold, he who has repented of his sins, the same is forgiven, and I, the Lord, remember them no more.
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Those who choose, conduct, present, and accompany the music may influence the spirit of reverence … more than a speaker does.
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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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If you are burdened with depressing feelings of guilt or disappointment, of failure or shame, there is a cure.
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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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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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If our view is limited to mortal life, some things become unbearable because they seem so unfair and so permanent.
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Faith, to be faith, must walk to the edge of the light, and then a few steps into the darkness. If everything has to be known, if everything has to be explained, if everything has to be certified, then there is no need for faith. Indeed, there is no room for it.
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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….Some needlessly carry a heavy burden of guilt which could be removed through confession and repentance.
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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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In the eternal scheme of things – not always in mortality – righteous yearning and longing will be fulfilled.
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