Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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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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Some suffer from real misfortunes. Sadly, others only imagine that they do.
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The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ has the nourishing power to heal starving spirits of the world.
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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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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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Like most things of great worth, knowledge which is of eternal value comes only through personal prayer and pondering. These, joined with fasting and scripture study, will invite impressions and revelations and the whisperings of the Holy Spirit. This provides us with instruction from on high as we learn precept upon precept.
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Without a knowledge of the gospel plan, transgression seems natural, innocent, even justified.
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Despite the opposition, trials, and temptations, you need not fail or fear.
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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 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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Some people think a miracle is only a miracle if it happens instantaneously, but miracles can grow slowly and patience and faith can compel things to happen that otherwise never would have come to pass.
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Our competition in life is solely with our old self.
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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 scriptures hold the keys to spiritual protection.
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Reverence invites Revelation.
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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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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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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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Progression: you can start from where you are.
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If you have stumbled or even been lost for a time, you can move forward with faith and not wander to and fro in the world any longer.
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Happiness is inseparably connected with decent, clean behavior.
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No one of us can survive in the world of today, much less what it will become, without personal inspiration.
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Learn to pray. Pray often. Pray in your mind, in your heart. Pray on your knees. Prayer is your personal key to heaven. The lock is on your side of the veil. And I have learned to conclude all my prayers with ‘Thy will be done’ (Matthew 6:10; see also Luke 11:2; 3 Nephi 13:10).
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Those who choose, conduct, present, and accompany the music may influence the spirit of reverence ... more than a speaker does.