Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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Progression: you can start from where you are.
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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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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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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 atonement of Christ is not just for those who sin. The mercy of Christ encompasses all pain.
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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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His judgments are just; His mercy without limit; His power to compensate beyond any earthly comparison.
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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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Prayer is your personal key to heaven.
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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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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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Music can set an atmosphere of worship which invites the spirit of revelation, of testimony.
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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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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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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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The answer is the same for everyone: we must, and we can, resist temptations of any kind.
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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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In or out of marriage, abortion is not an individual choice. At a minimum, three lives are involved.
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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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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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How grateful we are for you, our youth.
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The Lord will bless us as we attend to the sacred ordinance work of the temples. Blessings there will not be limited to our temple service. We will be blessed in all of our affairs.
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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.