Top 100 Boyd Packer Quotes
#1. 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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#2. The atonement of Christ is not just for those who sin. The mercy of Christ encompasses all pain.
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#3. The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evil.
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#4. Some suffer from real misfortunes. Sadly, others only imagine that they do.
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#5. Moral standards cannot be changed by battle and cannot be changed by ballot.
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#6. 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.
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#7. Do not ever disturb prelude music for others, for reverence is essential to revelation
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#8. The idea that life began with mortal birth is preposterous. There is no way to explain life if you believe that.
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#9. 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.
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#10. Joseph's vision of the Father and the Son opened this dispensation. Then came the Restoration of the fulness of the gospel of Jesus Christ with the same organization that existed in the primitive Church, built upon the foundation of apostles and prophets.
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#11. Learn to pray. Pray often. Pray in your mind, in your heart. Pray on your knees. Prayer is your personal key to heaven. The lock is on your side of the veil. And I have learned to conclude all my prayers with 'Thy will be done' (Matthew 6:10; see also Luke 11:2; 3 Nephi 13:10).
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#12. 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.
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#13. 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.
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#14. If you need a transfusion of spiritual strength then just ask for it. We call that Prayer. Prayer is powerful spiritual medicine.
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#15. The flow of revelation depends on your faith.
As you test gospel principles by believing
without knowing, the Spirit will begin to teach
you. Gradually your faith will be replaced with knowledge.
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#16. 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!
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#17. 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.
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#18. Happily ever after never happens in the second act.
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#19. 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.
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#21. 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.
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#22. 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.
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#23. Thoughts, like water, will stay on course if we make a place for them to go. As you learn to control your thoughts, you can gain courage, conquer fear and have a happy life.
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#24. 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.
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#25. The study of doctrine and the teaching of doctrine will change behavior more than the study of behavior will change behavior.
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#26. 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.
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#27. Faith is the power, obedience the sacrifice, love the means, Christ the reason.
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#28. If you understand the great plan of happiness and follow it, what goes on in the world will not determine your happiness.
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#29. Nowhere are the generosity and the kindness and mercy of God more manifest than in repentance.
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#30. If you have stumbled or even been lost for a time, you can move forward with faith and not wander to and fro in the world any longer.
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#31. Faith, to be faith, must center around something that is not known. Faith, to be faith, must go beyond that for which there is confirming evidence. Faith, to be faith, must go into the unknown. Faith, to be faith, must walk to the edge of the light, and then a few steps into the darkness.
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#32. There's no credit buying on eternal things, none at all. Anything that is worthwhile has to be paid for in advance.
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#33. We were given our agency. We must use it wisely and remain close to the Spirit; otherwise, we foolishly find ourselves yielding to the enticements of the adversary.
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#34. You must know that baptism for someone who is dead is quite as essential as baptism for some one who is living.
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#36. If our view is limited to mortal life, some things become unbearable because they seem so unfair and so permanent.
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#37. Do you realize how marvelous it is that you can call upon the Atonement? The Lord effected the Atonement for our sakes. And there isn't anything that you can't repent from and that you can't be rescued from if you will repent and be determined to make the decision.
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#38. 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.
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#40. What a wonderful time to be young. You will see events in your lifetime that will test your courage and extend your faith. If you will face the sunlight of truth, the shadows of discouragement and sin and error will fall behind you. You must never give up!
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#41. Our competition in life is solely with our old self.
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#42. Your responsibility as a father and a husband transcends any other interest in life.
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#43. Behold, he who has repented of his sins, the same is forgiven, and I, the Lord, remember them no more.
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#44. God bless you young women and young men who struggle through the worrisome teenage years. Some of you may not yet have found yourselves, but you are not lost, for Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, our Savior and Redeemer.
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#45. 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.
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#46. 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.
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#47. 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.
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#48. We accept the responsibility to preach the gospel to every person on earth. And if the question is asked, you mean you are out to convert the entire world? The answer is, 'yes'. We will try to reach every living soul.
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#49. Take hold of your life and order yourself to be valiant.
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#50. The Atonement has practical, personal, everyday value; apply it in your life. It can be activated with so simple a beginning as prayer.
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#51. 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.
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#52. Perhaps no other book has been denounced so vigorously by those who have never read it as has the Book of Mormon.
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#53. Despite the opposition, trials, and temptations, you need not fail or fear.
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#54. 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.
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#55. The power of procreation is not an incidental part of the plan; it is the plan of happiness.
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#56. Arms now empty will be filled and hearts now hurting from broken dreams and yearning will be healed.
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#57. If prayer is to leave the public schools, let the ridicule of prayer leave also.
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#58. Without a knowledge of the gospel plan, transgression seems natural, innocent, even justified.
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#59. Don't live so that your children go unled because of habits that leave you uninspired.
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#60. Inherent in the ordination to be bishop is both the right and the obligation to be directed by inspiration.
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#61. If you are burdened with depressing feelings of guilt or disappointment, of failure or shame, there is a cure.
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#62. Family time is sacred time and should be protected and respected.
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#63. Most of what we acquire materially is found to not be worth what we must pay spiritually.
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#64. 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.
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#65. Young men speak about the future because they have no past, and old men speak of the past because they have no future.
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#66. 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.
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#67. However common irreverence and profanity become, they are nonetheless wrong
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#68. 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.
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#69. A testimony of the hope of redemption is something which cannot be measured or counted. Jesus Christ is the source of that hope.
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#70. 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.
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#71. 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.
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#72. 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.
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#73. The word discipline sometimes touches a slightly rebellious chord in our natures. Remember that it comes from the word disciple.
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#74. Somewhere there is a message in the protest of the man who said, "You can't tell me that worry doesn't help. The things I worry about never happen."
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#75. A testimony is a testimony, and it should be respected, whether it is small or large.
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#77. The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ has the nourishing power to heal starving spirits of the world.
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#78. 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)
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#79. Those who choose, conduct, present, and accompany the music may influence the spirit of reverence ... more than a speaker does.
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#80. Our children were allowed to help when they were little, urged to help when they grew a little older, and sometimes ordered to help when they were teenagers.
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#81. The purest, most beautiful and appealing experiences of life: romance, love, marriage, and parenthood.
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#82. 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.
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#83. 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.
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#84. 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.
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#85. No one of us can survive in the world of today, much less what it will become, without personal inspiration.
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#86. Freedom is not a self-preserving gift. It has to be earned, and it has to be protected.
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#87. You cannot force spiritual things. A testimony is not thrust upon you; it grows. And a testimony is a testimony, and it should be respected, whether it is small or large. We become taller in our testimony like we grow in physical stature and hardly know it is happening, because it comes by growth.
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#88. No service in the Church or in the community transcends that given in the home.
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#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.
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#90. The gospel stands as true for those who reject it as for those who accept it - both will be judged by it.
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#91. In the eternal scheme of things - not always in mortality - righteous yearning and longing will be fulfilled.
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#92. 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.
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#93. 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.
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#95. No teaching is equal, more spiritually rewarding, or more exalting than that of a mother teaching her children.
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#96. His judgments are just; His mercy without limit; His power to compensate beyond any earthly comparison.
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#97. 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.
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#98. 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.
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#99. Happiness is inseparably connected with decent, clean behavior.
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#100. In or out of marriage, abortion is not an individual choice. At a minimum, three lives are involved.
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