Boyd K. Packer Quotes

#1. Your responsibility as a father and a husband transcends any other interest in life. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#2. Devotion to the family and devotion to the Church are not different and separate things. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#3. Often, very often, we are punished as much by our sins as we are for them. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#4. There are many things about living the gospel of Jesus Christ that cannot be measured by that which is counted or charted in records of attendance. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#5. At the temple the dust of distraction seems to settle out, the fog and the haze seem to lift, and we can 'see' things that we were not able to see before and find a way through our troubles that we had not previously known. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#6. Faith is the power, obedience the sacrifice, love the means, Christ the reason. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#7. Nowhere are the generosity and the kindness and mercy of God more manifest than in repentance. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#8. There's no credit buying on eternal things, none at all. Anything that is worthwhile has to be paid for in advance. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#9. Fear is the opposite of faith - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#10. If our view is limited to mortal life, some things become unbearable because they seem so unfair and so permanent. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#11. Ordinances and covenants become our credentials for admission into His presence. To worthily receive them is the quest of a lifetime; to keep them thereafter is the challenge of mortality. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#12. In all that we do in the Church, we need to provide the way, as leaders, for parents and children to have time together as families. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#13. Our competition in life is solely with our old self. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#14. 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. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#15. Behold, he who has repented of his sins, the same is forgiven, and I, the Lord, remember them no more. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#16. 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. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#17. The gift of the Holy Ghost operates equally with men, women, and even little children. It is within this wondrous gift and power that the spiritual remedy to any problem can be found. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#18. Take hold of your life and order yourself to be valiant. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#19. The Atonement has practical, personal, everyday value; apply it in your life. It can be activated with so simple a beginning as prayer. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#20. If you need a transfusion of spiritual strength then just ask for it. We call that Prayer. Prayer is powerful spiritual medicine. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#21. The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evil. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#22. Moral standards cannot be changed by battle and cannot be changed by ballot. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#23. The Word of Wisdom does not promise you perfect health, but it teaches how to keep the body you were born with in the best condition and your mind alert to delicate spiritual promptings. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#24. Do not ever disturb prelude music for others, for reverence is essential to revelation - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#25. The idea that life began with mortal birth is preposterous. There is no way to explain life if you believe that. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#26. The flak is always the heaviest closest to the target - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#27. Punctuality is an essential trait of the teacher. It is a foundation, not an embellishment. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#28. Hit the 'delete' button when you have unrighteous thoughts. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#29. It has to be an awfully good meeting to beat having no meeting at all. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#30. You ought to know that the Lord loves you. He will make that known to you, and it will be a very private and individual experience, something you cannot explain to anyone else. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#31. The scriptures hold the keys to spiritual protection. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#32. Every soul confined to a concentration camp of sin and guilt has a key to the gate. The adversary cannot hold them if they know how to use it. The key is labeled Repentance. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#33. Addiction has the capacity to disconnect the human will and nullify moral agency. It can rob one of the power to decide. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#34. The Spirit is a voice that one feels more than hears. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#35. 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. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#36. Christ's mercy is the mighty healer; even to the wounded innocent. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#37. We could be like a father determined to provide everything for his family. He devotes every energy to that end and succeeds; only then does he discover that what they needed most, to be together as a family, has been neglected. And he reaps sorrow in place of contentment. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#38. The spiritually starving hesitate to partake of the Spirit like a child's reaction to new and strange food. They must be offered a tiny bite on a spoon. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#39. Teach yourself and teach your families about the gift of the Holy Ghost and the Atonement of Jesus Christ. You will do no greater eternal work than within the walls of your own home. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#40. We are not free to break our covenants and escape the consequences. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#41. The end of all activity in the church is to see that a man and a woman with their children are happy at home, sealed for eternity. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#42. This great circle of sisters will be a protection for each of you and for your families. The Relief Society might be likened to a refuge- the place of safety and protection- the sanctuary of ancient times. You will be safe within it. It encircles each sister like a protecting wall. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#43. 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. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#44. Life moves all too fast. When you feel weak, discouraged, depressed, or afraid, open the Book of Mormon and read. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#45. 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. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#46. Dispute not because ye see not, for ye receive no witness until after the trial of your faith. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#47. Obedience is a powerful spiritual medicine. It comes close to being a cure-all. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#48. 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. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

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

#50. Prayer is your personal key to heaven. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#51. Most of what we acquire materially is found to not be worth what we must pay spiritually. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#52. Happiness is inseparably connected with decent, clean behavior. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#53. In or out of marriage, abortion is not an individual choice. At a minimum, three lives are involved. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#54. The ultimate purpose of every teaching, every activity in the Church is that parents and their children are happy at home, sealed in an eternal marriage, and linked to their generations. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#55. Perhaps no other book has been denounced so vigorously by those who have never read it as has the Book of Mormon. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#56. I bear witness of the power of the priesthood given to the Church to protect us and guide us. And because we have that, we have no fear of the future. Fear is the opposite of faith. We move forward, certain that the Lord will watch over us, particularly in the family. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#57. The power of procreation is not an incidental part of the plan; it is the plan of happiness. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#58. Arms now empty will be filled and hearts now hurting from broken dreams and yearning will be healed. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#59. If prayer is to leave the public schools, let the ridicule of prayer leave also. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#60. Don't live so that your children go unled because of habits that leave you uninspired. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#61. Inherent in the ordination to be bishop is both the right and the obligation to be directed by inspiration. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

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

#63. Family time is sacred time and should be protected and respected. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#64. Christ will step in and solve the problem you cannot solve, but you have to pay the price. It does not come without doing that. He is a very kind ruler in the sense that He will always pay the price necessary, but He wants you to do what you should, even if it is painful. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#65. If [we] have a good, miserable day once in a while, or several in a row, stand steady and face them. Things will straighten out. There is great purpose in our struggle in life. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#66. Young men speak about the future because they have no past, and old men speak of the past because they have no future. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#67. 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. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#68. However common irreverence and profanity become, they are nonetheless wrong - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#69. Peace can be settled in the heart of each who turns to the scriptures and unlocks the promises of protection and redemption that are taught therein. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

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

#71. 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. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#72. Our purpose is to produce students who have that rare and precious combination of a superb secular education, complemented by faith in the Lord, a knowledge of the doctrines He has revealed, and a testimony that they are true. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#73. 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. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#74. The word discipline sometimes touches a slightly rebellious chord in our natures. Remember that it comes from the word disciple. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#75. A testimony is a testimony, and it should be respected, whether it is small or large. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#76. All are born with the Light of Christ, a guiding influence which permits each person to recognize right from wrong. What we do with that light and how we respond to those promptings to live righteously is part of the test of mortality. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#77. 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. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#78. Probably the greatest challenge and the most difficult thing you will face in mortal life is to learn to control your thoughts. In the Bible it says, as a man "thinketh in his heart, so is he." Those who can control their thoughts have conquered themselves. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#79. Unwinding a habit that you have allowed to entangle you can be difficult. But the power is in you. Do not despair. The Prophet Joseph Smith taught that 'all beings who have bodies have power over those who have not.' You can resist temptation! - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#80. It is my conviction that your generation is better and stronger than was ours ... better in many ways! I have the faith that you young men and young women can meet the world on its own terms and conquer it. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#81. 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. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#82. Parents now are concerned about the moral and spiritual diseases. These can have terrible complications when standards and values are abandoned. We must all take protective measures. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#83. 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. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#84. The gospel teaches us to be happy, to have faith rather than fear, to find hope and overcome despair, to leave darkness and turn toward the light of the everlasting gospel. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

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

#86. With thoughtless and impatient hands We tangle up the plans The Lord hath wrought. And when we cry in pain He saith, "Be quiet, man, while I untie the knot." (Author unknown, in Jack M. Lyon et al., Best-Loved Poems of the LDS People [1996], 304) - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#87. Those who choose, conduct, present, and accompany the music may influence the spirit of reverence ... more than a speaker does. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#88. The purest, most beautiful and appealing experiences of life: romance, love, marriage, and parenthood. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#89. I hope to be judged as good a man as my father. Before I hear those words "well done" from my Heavenly Father, I hope to first hear them from my mortal father. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#90. 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. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#91. 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. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#92. No one of us can survive in the world of today, much less what it will become, without personal inspiration. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#93. Things we cannot solve, we must survive. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#94. The gospel stands as true for those who reject it as for those who accept it - both will be judged by it. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#95. In the eternal scheme of things - not always in mortality - righteous yearning and longing will be fulfilled. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#96. 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. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#97. 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. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

#98. Progression: you can start from where you are. - Author: Boyd K. Packer

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

#100. The ultimate effort of everything in the Church is to the end that a father and a mother and their children can be happy at home. If they are happy at home, they are spiritually prepared for whatever should be ahead of them in the world. - Author: Boyd K. Packer