Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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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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Dispute not because ye see not, for ye receive no witness until after the trial of your faith.
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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 is a temptation for the writer or the teacher of Church history to want to tell everything, whether it is worthy or faith promoting or not. Some things that are true are not very useful.
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Happily ever after never happens in the second act.
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Obedience is a powerful spiritual medicine. It comes close to being a cure-all.
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The Spirit is a voice that one feels more than hears.
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Your responsibility as a father and a husband transcends any other interest in life.
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We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see.
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Get to Know Yourself Once you start getting acquainted with yourselves, finding out who you are and where you belong and who your relatives are, spiritually speaking as well as in the earthly frame of reference, you come to the astounding, overwhelming realization that you are a child of God-that you belong to Him, that He is your Father. He is our Father.
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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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The ultimate purpose of every teaching, every activity in the Church is that parents and their children are happy at home, sealed in an eternal marriage, and linked to their generations.
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There is a falsehood that some are born with an attraction to their own kind, with nothing they can do about it. They are just 'that way' and can only yield to those desires. That is a malicious and destructive lie. While it is a convincing idea to some, it is of the devil. No one is locked into that kind of life. From our premoral life we were directed into a physical body. There is no mismatching of bodies and spirits. Boys are to become men-masculine, manly men-ultimately to become husbands and fathers. No one is predestined to a perverted use of these powers.
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The Word of Wisdom does not promise you perfect health, but it teaches how to keep the body you were born with in the best condition and your mind alert to delicate spiritual promptings.
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Progression: you can start from where you are.
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Often, very often, we are punished as much by our sins as we are for them.
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You must know that baptism for someone who is dead is quite as essential as baptism for some one who is living.
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Without a knowledge of the gospel plan, transgression seems natural, innocent, even justified.
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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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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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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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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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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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The Atonement has practical, personal, everyday value; apply it in your life. It can be activated with so simple a beginning as prayer.