"Latter-day Saints are not obedient because they are compelled to be obedient.Â They are obedient because they know certain spiritual truths and have decided, as an expression of their own individual agency, to obey the commandments of God. . . . We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see"

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Source : Boyd K. Packer (1998). “The shield of faith”, Bookcraft, Incorporated

Boyd K. Packer

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“The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.”
“You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.”
“When there is a tendency to compartmentalize the spiritual and make it resident in a certain type of life only, the spiritual is apt gradually to be lost.”
“Forgiveness is the best charity. (It is easy to give the poor money and goods when one has plenty, but to forgive is hard; but it is the best thing if one can do it.”
“Ninety-nine percent of Indian people loved me and they still love me.”
“Well, I've maybe gotten 200 requests for interviews about Marilyn, and I just decided I'm gonna do my own.”
“People grow. It's okay to grow. Some people find that difficult to grasp.”
“A magazine to have style, must need and understand and invest in what jingles - not jiggles - in designer jeans.”

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