Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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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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Arms now empty will be filled and hearts now hurting from broken dreams and yearning will be healed.
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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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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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No one of us can survive in the world of today, much less what it will become, without personal inspiration.
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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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No pain will last forever. It is not easy, but life was never meant to be either easy or fair. Repentance and the lasting hope that forgiveness brings will always be worth the effort.
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Progression: you can start from where you are.
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Despite the opposition, trials, and temptations, you need not fail or fear.
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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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Some suffer from real misfortunes. Sadly, others only imagine that they do.
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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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Happiness is inseparably connected with decent, clean behavior.
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The scriptures hold the keys to spiritual protection.
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Those who choose, conduct, present, and accompany the music may influence the spirit of reverence ... more than a speaker does.
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Peace can be settled in the heart of each who turns to the scriptures and unlocks the promises of protection and redemption that are taught therein.
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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 Spirit is a voice that one feels more than hears.
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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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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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In the eternal scheme of things - not always in mortality - righteous yearning and longing will be fulfilled.
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Without a knowledge of the gospel plan, transgression seems natural, innocent, even justified.
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The gospel stands as true for those who reject it as for those who accept it - both will be judged by it.
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We accept the responsibility to preach the gospel to every person on earth. And if the question is asked, you mean you are out to convert the entire world? The answer is, 'yes'. We will try to reach every living soul.