Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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Our competition in life is solely with our old self.
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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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Without a knowledge of the gospel plan, transgression seems natural, innocent, even justified.
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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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Tolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice.
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What a wonderful time to be young. You will see events in your lifetime that will test your courage and extend your faith. If you will face the sunlight of truth, the shadows of discouragement and sin and error will fall behind you. You must never give up!
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Despite the opposition, trials, and temptations, you need not fail or fear.
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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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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 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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The atonement of Christ is not just for those who sin. The mercy of Christ encompasses all pain.
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You always hold the key of repentance to unlock the prison door. If they throw the word diversity at you, grab hold of it and say, "I am already diverse, and I intend to stay diverse." If the word is tolerance, grab that one, too, saying, "I expect you to be tolerant of my lifestyle-obedience, integrity, abstinence, repentance." If the word is choice, tell them you choose good, old-fashioned morality.
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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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The scriptures hold the keys to spiritual protection.
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It was meant to be that life would be a challenge. To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal. Teach our members that if they have a good, miserable day once in a while, or several in a row, to stand steady and face them. Things will straighten out. There is great purpose in our struggle in life.
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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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Reverence invites Revelation.
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The purest, most beautiful and appealing experiences of life: romance, love, marriage, and parenthood.
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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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Music can set an atmosphere of worship which invites the spirit of revelation, of testimony.
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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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Prayer is your personal key to heaven.
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The power of procreation is not an incidental part of the plan; it is the plan of happiness.