Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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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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Happily ever after never happens in the second act.
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Your responsibility as a father and a husband transcends any other interest in life.
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If you understand the great plan of happiness and follow it, what goes on in the world will not determine your happiness.
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We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see.
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Obedience is a powerful spiritual medicine. It comes close to being a cure-all.
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Happiness is inseparably connected with decent, clean behavior.
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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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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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Arms now empty will be filled and hearts now hurting from broken dreams and yearning will be healed.
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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 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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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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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 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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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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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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Often, very often, we are punished as much by our sins as we are for them.
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The Spirit is a voice that one feels more than hears.
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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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Our competition in life is solely with our old self.
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Progression: you can start from where you are.
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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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Perhaps no other book has been denounced so vigorously by those who have never read it as has the Book of Mormon.