Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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Our competition in life is solely with our old self.
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The purest, most beautiful and appealing experiences of life: romance, love, marriage, and parenthood.
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Somewhere there is a message in the protest of the man who said, "You can't tell me that worry doesn't help. The things I worry about never happen."
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There is also an age-old excuse: “The devil made me do it.” Not so! He can deceive you and mislead you, but he does not have the power to force you or anyone else to transgress or to keep you in transgression.
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Moral standards cannot be changed by battle and cannot be changed by ballot.
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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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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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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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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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We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see.
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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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The power of procreation is not an incidental part of the plan; it is the plan of happiness.
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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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It is my conviction that your generation is better and stronger than was ours... better in many ways! I have the faith that you young men and young women can meet the world on its own terms and conquer it.
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The atonement of Christ is not just for those who sin. The mercy of Christ encompasses all pain.
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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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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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Your responsibility as a father and a husband transcends any other interest in life.
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The voice of the Spirit is described in the scriptures as being neither loud nor harsh, not a voice of thunder, neither a voice of great tumultuous noise, but rather as still and small, of perfect mildness, as if it had been a whisper, and it can pierce even the very soul and cause the heart to burn. The Spirit does not get our attention by shouting.
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I'm not ashamed to say that I want to be good. And I've found in my life that it has been critically important to establish this intention between me and the Lord so that I knew that HE knew which way I committed my agency. I went before Him and said, 'I'm not neutral, and you can do with me what you want. If you need my vote-it's there. I don't care what you do with me and you don't have to take anything from me because I give it to you-everything. All I own. All I am.' And THAT has made all the difference.
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Despite the opposition, trials, and temptations, you need not fail or fear.
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Reverence invites Revelation.
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If you are burdened with depressing feelings of guilt or disappointment, of failure or shame, there is a cure.
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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.