Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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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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No teaching is equal, more spiritually rewarding, or more exalting than that of a mother teaching her children.
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A testimony is a testimony, and it should be respected, whether it is small or large.
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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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Your responsibility as a father and a husband transcends any other interest in life.
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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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Our competition in life is solely with our old self.
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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 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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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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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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In or out of marriage, abortion is not an individual choice. At a minimum, three lives are involved.
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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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The Spirit is a voice that one feels more than hears.
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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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Music can set an atmosphere of worship which invites the spirit of revelation, of testimony.
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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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Prayer is your personal key to heaven.
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His judgments are just; His mercy without limit; His power to compensate beyond any earthly comparison.
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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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One of the adversary's sharpest tools is to convince us that we are no longer worthy to pray. No matter who you are or what you may have done, you can always pray.
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Our whole social order could self-destruct over the obsession with freedom disconnected from responsibility; where choice is imagined to be somehow independent of consequences.
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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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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.