Boyd K. Packer famous quotes

There are few things more powerful than the faithful prayers of a righteous mother.
-- Boyd K. Packer

#Mother #Spiritual #Prayer

A testimony of the hope of redemption is something which cannot be measured or counted. Jesus Christ is the source of that hope.
-- Boyd K. Packer

#Jesus #Redemption #Christ

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.
-- Boyd K. Packer

#Thinking #People #Miracle

You always hold the key of repentance to unlock the prison door. If they throw the word diversity at you, grab hold of it and say, "I am already diverse, and I intend to stay diverse." If the word is tolerance, grab that one, too, saying, "I expect you to be tolerant of my lifestyle-obedience, integrity, abstinence, repentance." If the word is choice, tell them you choose good, old-fashioned morality.
-- Boyd K. Packer

#Integrity #Keys #Doors

Happiness is inseparably connected with decent, clean behavior.
-- Boyd K. Packer

#Behavior #Decent #Connected

True doctrine, understood, changes attitudes and behavior. The study of the doctrines of the gospel will improve behavior quicker than a study of behavior will improve behavior. Preoccupation with unworthy behavior can lead to unworthy behavior. That is why we stress so forcefully the study of the doctrines of the gospel.
-- Boyd K. Packer

#Attitude #Stress #Doctrine

We live in a day when the adversary stresses on every hand the philosophy of instant gratification. We seem to demand instant everything, including instant solutions to our problems. . .It was meant to be that life would be a challenge. To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal.
-- Boyd K. Packer

#Disappointment #Philosophy #Stress

Just as chalk can be removed from a chalkboard, with sincere repentance, the effects of our transgression can be erased through the atonement of Jesus Christ.
-- Boyd K. Packer

#Jesus #Atonement #Christ

No pain will last forever. It is not easy, but life was never meant to be either easy or fair. Repentance and the lasting hope that forgiveness brings will always be worth the effort.
-- Boyd K. Packer

#Spiritual #Pain #Effort

Get to Know Yourself Once you start getting acquainted with yourselves, finding out who you are and where you belong and who your relatives are, spiritually speaking as well as in the earthly frame of reference, you come to the astounding, overwhelming realization that you are a child of God-that you belong to Him, that He is your Father. He is our Father.
-- Boyd K. Packer

#Children #Father #Realization

Latter-day Saints are not obedient because they are compelled to be obedient.  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
-- Boyd K. Packer

#Spiritual #Agency #Expression

Keep the fire of your testimony of the restored gospel and your witness of our Redeemer burning so brightly that our children can warm their hands by the fire of your faith.
-- Boyd K. Packer

#Children #Fire #Hands

Temple. One other word is equal in importance to a Latter-day Saint. Home. Put the words holy temple and home together, and you have described the house of the Lord!
-- Boyd K. Packer

#Home #House #Together

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.
-- Boyd K. Packer

#Matter #Tools #Done

If you are burdened with depressing feelings of guilt or disappointment, of failure or shame, there is a cure.
-- Boyd K. Packer

#Depressing #Disappointment #Feelings

The guilt that accompanies mistakes can be washed away.
-- Boyd K. Packer

#Spiritual #Mistake #Guilt

It is in the ordinances of the temple that we are placed under covenant to Him….[If] we will enter into our covenants without reservation or apology, the Lord will protect us. We will receive inspiration sufficient for the challenges of life.
-- Boyd K. Packer

#Inspiration #Apology #Challenges

If you have seen one of the temples at night, fully lighted, you know what an impressive sight that can be. The house of the Lord, bathed in light, standing out in the darkness, becomes symbolic of the power and the inspiration of the gospel of Jesus Christ standing as a beacon in a world that sinks ever further into spiritual darkness.
-- Boyd K. Packer

#Spiritual #Jesus #Inspiration

You may in time of trouble think that you are not worth saving because you have made mistakes, big or little, and you think you are now lost. That is never true! Only repentance can heal what hurts. But repentancecan heal what hurts, no matter what it is.
-- Boyd K. Packer

#Hurt #Mistake #Thinking

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.
-- Boyd K. Packer

#Blessed #Blessing #Sacred

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.
-- Boyd K. Packer

#Music #Spiritual #Art

Tolerance is a virtue, but like all virtues, when exaggerated, it transforms itself into a vice. We need to be careful of the “tolerance trap” so that we are not swallowed up in it. The permissiveness afforded by the weakening of the laws of the land to tolerate legalized acts of immorality does not reduce the serious spiritual consequence that is the result of the violation of God’s law of chastity.
-- Boyd K. Packer

#Spiritual #Law #Land

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.
-- Boyd K. Packer

#Teacher #Scary #Temptation

There is also an age-old excuse: 'The devil made me do it.' Not so! He can deceive you and mislead you, but he does not have the power to force you or anyone else to transgress or to keep you in transgression.
-- Boyd K. Packer

#Age #Devil #Doe

One who can control his thoughts has conquered himself.
-- Boyd K. Packer

Our whole social order could self-destruct over the obsession with freedom disconnected from responsibility; where choice is imagined to be somehow independent of consequences.
-- Boyd K. Packer

#Independent #Responsibility #Self

Teenagers also sometimes think, 'What's the use? The world will soon be blown all apart and come to an end.' That feeling comes from fear, not from faith. No one knows the hour or the day (see D&C 49:7), but the end cannot come until all of the purposes of the Lord are fulfilled. Everything that I have learned from the revelations and from life convinces me that there is time and to spare for you to carefully prepare for a long life.
-- Boyd K. Packer

#Teenager #Thinking #Long

You are a child of God. He is father of your spirit. Spiritually you are of noble birth, the offspring of the King of Heaven. Fix that truth in your mind and hold to it. However many generations in your mortal ancestry, no matter what race or people you represent, the pedigree of your spirit can be written on a single line. You are a child of God!
-- Boyd K. Packer

#Kings #Children #Father

Despite the opposition, trials, and temptations, you need not fail or fear.
-- Boyd K. Packer

#Temptation #Needs #Trials

Faith is a real power, not just an expression of belief.
-- Boyd K. Packer

#Spiritual #Real #Expression

To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal.
-- Boyd K. Packer

#Disappointment #Anxiety #Suffering

There is little to be gained by seeking after the mysteries, for there is hardly time in a lifetime to master the plain and precious things.
-- Boyd K. Packer

#Littles #Mystery #Lifetime

The study of doctrine and the teaching of doctrine will change behavior more than the study of behavior will change behavior.
-- Boyd K. Packer

#Teaching #Doctrine #Study

Prayer is your personal key to heaven.
-- Boyd K. Packer

#Spiritual #Prayer #Keys

Everyone is tested. One might think it is unfair to be singled out and subjected to a particular temptation, but this is the purpose of mortal life—to be tested. And the answer is the same for everyone: we must, and we can, resist temptations of any kind.
-- Boyd K. Packer

#Thinking #Temptation #Purpose

When music is presented which, however appropriate for other occasions, does not fit the Sabbath, much is lost. . . . The Spirit does not ratify speech nor confirm music which lacks spiritual substance.
-- Boyd K. Packer

#Music #Spiritual #Doe

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.
-- Boyd K. Packer

#Children #Husband #Wife

Throughout your life there may be times when you have gone places you never should have gone and done things you never should have done. If you will turn away from sin, you will be able one day to know the peace that comes from following the pathway of complete repentance.
-- Boyd K. Packer

#One Day #Pathways #Gone

Music can set an atmosphere of worship which invites [the] spirit of revelation, of testimony.
-- Boyd K. Packer

#Music #Atmosphere #Spirit

His judgments are just; His mercy without limit; His power to compensate beyond any earthly comparison.
-- Boyd K. Packer

#Limits #Judgment #Mercy

I do not think it pleases the Lord when we worry because we think we never do enough or that what we do is never good enough.
-- Boyd K. Packer

#Thinking #Worry #Never Good Enough