Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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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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In or out of marriage, abortion is not an individual choice. At a minimum, three lives are involved.
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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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The power of procreation is not an incidental part of the plan; it is the plan of happiness.
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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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Some suffer from real misfortunes. Sadly, others only imagine that they do.
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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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His judgments are just; His mercy without limit; His power to compensate beyond any earthly comparison.
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Largely because of television, instead of looking over into that spacious building, we are, in effect, living inside of it. That is your fate in this generation. You are living in that great and spacious building.
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Moral standards cannot be changed by battle and cannot be changed by ballot.
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I counsel our children to do their critical studying in the early hours of the morning when they're fresh and alert, rather than to fight physical weariness and mental exhaustion at night. I've learned the power of the dictum, "Early to bed, early to rise." When I'm under pressure, you won't find me burning the midnight oil. I'd much rather be in bed early and getting up in the wee hours of the morning.
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This great circle of sisters will be a protection for each of you and for your families. The Relief Society might be likened to a refuge- the place of safety and protection- the sanctuary of ancient times. You will be safe within it. It encircles each sister like a protecting wall.
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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 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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If our view is limited to mortal life, some things become unbearable because they seem so unfair and so permanent.
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Repentance is the key with which we can unlock the prison from inside. We hold that key within our hands, and agency is ours to use it.
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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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Devotion to the family and devotion to the Church are not different and separate things.
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How grateful we are for you, our youth.
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Our lives are made up of thousands of everyday choices. Over the years these little choices will be bundled together and show clearly what we value.
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The answer is the same for everyone: we must, and we can, resist temptations of any kind.
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Happiness will depend on what each of us does with what each has, what we learn from what we do, and what we do thereafter.
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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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The end of all activity in the church is to see that a man and a woman with their children are happy at home, sealed for eternity.