If you have seen one of the temples at night, fully lighted, you know what an impressive sight that can be.
BOYD K. PACKERNo teaching is equal, more spiritually rewarding, or more exalting than that of a mother teaching her children.
More Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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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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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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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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Devotion to the family and devotion to the Church are not different and separate things.
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Some worry endlessly over missions that were missed, or marriages that did not turn out, or babies that did not arrive, or children that seem lost, or dreams unfulfilled, or because age limits what they can do.
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Young men speak about the future because they have no past, and old men speak of the past because they have no future.
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Often, very often, we are punished as much by our sins as we are for them.
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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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Family time is sacred time and should be protected and respected.
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No one of us can survive in the world of today, much less what it will become, without personal inspiration.
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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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If you stumble, rise up, go on.
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Our lives are made up of thousands of everyday choices. Over the years these little choices will be bundled together and show clearly what we value.
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Some things that are true are not very useful.
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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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