Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.
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When the peace of God follows the purity of God's wisdom into our hearts and lives, it will affect those around us.
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While most of those who hold that the whole heaven is finite say that the earth lies at the center, the philosophers of Italy, the so-called Pythagoreans, assert the contrary. They say that in the middle there is fire, and that the earth is one of the stars, and by its circular motion round the center produces night and day.
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Some write a narrative of wars and feats, Of heroes little known, and call the rant A history.
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The right question is usually more important than the right answer.
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Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each other to pieces.
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She knows who she is, because she knows who she isn't.
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An object that is at rest will tend to stay at rest. An object that is in motion will tend to stay in motion.
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There's only one requirement for enjoying God's grace: being broke . . . and knowing it.
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We are too near the scene of tragedy to realize that this canker or untouchability has traveled far beyond its prescribed limits and has sapped the very foundation of the whole nation.
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The aura of uninvincibility has gone, if there is such a word.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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Groceries became a revelation: the people coming out with bundles of food. It's all like a great ceremony, and the whole drudgery of shopping has become my inspiration.
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Happy indeed the poet of whom, like Orpheus, nothing is known but an immortal name! Happy next, perhaps, the poet of whom, like Homer, nothing is known but the immortal works. The more the merely human part of the poet remains a mystery, the more willing is the reverence given to his divine mission.
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Reverence invites Revelation.
