Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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Without a knowledge of the gospel plan, transgression seems natural, innocent, even justified.
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When music is presented which, however appropriate for other occasions, does not fit the Sabbath, much is lost. . . . The Spirit does not ratify speech nor confirm music which lacks spiritual substance.
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A testimony is a testimony, and it should be respected, whether it is small or large.
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Perhaps no other book has been denounced so vigorously by those who have never read it as has the Book of Mormon.
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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 Atonement has practical, personal, everyday value; apply it in your life. It can be activated with so simple a beginning as prayer.
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You may in time of trouble think that you are not worth saving because you have made mistakes, big or little, and you think you are now lost. That is never true! Only repentance can heal what hurts. But repentancecan heal what hurts, no matter what it is.
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There are spiritual and physical laws to obey if we are to be happy.
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Teaching some things that are true, prematurely or at the wrong time, can invite sorrow and heartbreak instead of the joy intended to accompany learning.... The scriptures teach emphatically that we must give milk before meat. The Lord made it very clear that some things are to be taught selectively and some things are to be given only to those who are worthy.
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Nowhere are the generosity and the kindness and mercy of God more manifest than in repentance.
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Throughout your life there may be times when you have gone places you never should have gone and done things you never should have done. If you will turn away from sin, you will be able one day to know the peace that comes from following the pathway of complete repentance.
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There is little to be gained by seeking after the mysteries, for there is hardly time in a lifetime to master the plain and precious things.
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The ultimate effort of everything in the Church is to the end that a father and a mother and their children can be happy at home. If they are happy at home, they are spiritually prepared for whatever should be ahead of them in the world.
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Parents now are concerned about the moral and spiritual diseases. These can have terrible complications when standards and values are abandoned. We must all take protective measures.
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The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evil.
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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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Often, very often, we are punished as much by our sins as we are for them.
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Tolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice.
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Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.
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In all that we do in the Church, we need to provide the way, as leaders, for parents and children to have time together as families.
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Our whole social order could self-destruct over the obsession with freedom disconnected from responsibility; where choice is imagined to be somehow independent of consequences.
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No teaching is equal, more spiritually rewarding, or more exalting than that of a mother teaching her children.
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What a wonderful time to be young. You will see events in your lifetime that will test your courage and extend your faith. If you will face the sunlight of truth, the shadows of discouragement and sin and error will fall behind you. You must never give up!
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Our competition in life is solely with our old self.