Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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Your responsibility as a father and a husband transcends any other interest in life.
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Progression: you can start from where you are.
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Reverence invites Revelation.
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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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The purest, most beautiful and appealing experiences of life: romance, love, marriage, and parenthood.
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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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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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In or out of marriage, abortion is not an individual choice. At a minimum, three lives are involved.
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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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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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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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Christ's mercy is the mighty healer; even to the wounded innocent.
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The Spirit is a voice that one feels more than hears.
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Moral standards cannot be changed by battle and cannot be changed by ballot.
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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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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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Despite the opposition, trials, and temptations, you need not fail or fear.
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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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Husbands and wives should understand that their first calling-from which they will never be released-is to one another and THEN to their children.
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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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The scriptures hold the keys to spiritual protection.
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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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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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Prayer is your personal key to heaven.