"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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Source : "The Mantle Is Far, Far Greater Than the Intellect" by Boyd K. Packer, www.lds.org. 2004.

Boyd K. Packer

#Teacher Quotes #Scary Quotes #Temptation Quotes

“I try to keep my life as private as I can, but I definitely don't do what I do for the attention because if I knew coming into that I would have all those people outside my house, I might have given myself a second thought.”
“No matter what genre of music you play when you rack up a couple years of experience, you have your own point of view no matter who it is that is coming in front of you whether it's a pop artist or a country artist. Whoever.”
“Thatâ€™s what we were toldâ€”stand up for yourself. But thatâ€™s hard to do if you donâ€™t know who you are.”
“Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. They appear so while they are passing; they seem to have been so when we look back on them; and they take up more room in our memory than all the years that succeed them.”
“If you like the book, you'll hate the movie.”
“Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.”
“The only difference between resigning and resigning is a hyphen.”
“It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line.”

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