Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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.
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Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.
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To know that God knows everything about me and yet loves me is indeed my ultimate consolation.
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Don't ever forget your history," she sang, "or any wicked soul can lie to you and get away with it.
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Knowledge of peace passes from country to country, like children's games, which are so much alike, everywhere.
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Satan's gotta get along without me. Since I've broke the chain of sin I know for sure that he can't win.
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I really believe my greatest service is in the many unwise steps I prevent.
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Any life he'd ever heard of, his own included, was burdened with emotions - love, loss, jobs, jealousy, money, death, pain. But if you were Jewish, always there was this extra one, the added pull at your endurance, the one more thing. There was that line in Thoreau about 'quiet desperation' - that was indeed true of most men. But for some men and women, for some fathers and mothers and children, the world still contrived that one extra test, endless and unrelenting.
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Although there may be tragedy in your life, there’s always a possibility to triumph. It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.
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I hope that I'm not the type of person who, standing at the doorway to hell, strikes a heroic pose and then starts frowning with indecision.
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A story is not only meaning, it's music as well.
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One can overcome the forces of negative emotions, like anger and hatred, by cultivating their counter-forces, like love and compassion.
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Repentance is a blessing to all of us. We each need to feel the Savior's arms of mercy through the forgiveness of our sins.
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True repentance hates the sin, and not merely the penalty; and it hates the sin most of all because it has discovered and felt God's love.
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How many people have more than one bible in your house? If you have more than one Bible in your home, I challenge you to have a bit more compassion and think about those who have never had access to the Word of God.
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My father taught me that reputation, not money, was the most important thing in the world.
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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.
