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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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 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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In or out of marriage, abortion is not an individual choice. At a minimum, three lives are involved.
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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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The Word of Wisdom does not promise you perfect health, but it teaches how to keep the body you were born with in the best condition and your mind alert to delicate spiritual promptings.
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Often, very often, we are punished as much by our sins as we are for them.
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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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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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Teaching some things that are true, prematurely or at the wrong time, can invite sorrow and heartbreak instead of the joy intended to accompany learning.... The scriptures teach emphatically that we must give milk before meat. The Lord made it very clear that some things are to be taught selectively and some things are to be given only to those who are worthy.
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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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The Spirit is a voice that one feels more than hears.
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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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We are able to feel and learn very quickly through music, through art, through poetry some spiritual things that we would otherwise learn very slowly.
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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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The atonement of Christ is not just for those who sin. The mercy of Christ encompasses all pain.
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The purest, most beautiful and appealing experiences of life: romance, love, marriage, and parenthood.
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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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Moral standards cannot be changed by battle and cannot be changed by ballot.
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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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Throughout your life there may be times when you have gone places you never should have gone and done things you never should have done. If you will turn away from sin, you will be able one day to know the peace that comes from following the pathway of complete repentance.
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If you understand the great plan of happiness and follow it, what goes on in the world will not determine your happiness.
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Prayer is your personal key to heaven.