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A thought from the scriptures

Published: Saturday, Aug. 17, 2002

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The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.

— Psalm 19:1

"How well I know that among the learned men are those who look down at animals and stones to find the origin of man," said Elder Boyd K. Packer of the Quorum of the Twelve at April 1988 general conference. "They do not look inside themselves to find the spirit there. They train themselves to measure things by time, by thousands and by millions, and say these animals called men all came by chance. And this they are free to do, for agency is theirs.

"But agency is ours as well. We look up, and in the universe we see the handiwork of God and measure things by epochs, by eons, by dispensations, by eternities. The many things we do not know we take on faith."