Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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Moral standards cannot be changed by battle and cannot be changed by ballot.
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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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Prayer is your personal key to heaven.
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Devotion to the family and devotion to the Church are not different and separate things.
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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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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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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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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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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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If you are burdened with depressing feelings of guilt or disappointment, of failure or shame, there is a cure.
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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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Some suffer from real misfortunes. Sadly, others only imagine that they do.
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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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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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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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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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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 answer is the same for everyone: we must, and we can, resist temptations of any kind.
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How grateful we are for you, our youth.
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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.
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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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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.