Boyd K. Packer Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.
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When the peace of God follows the purity of God's wisdom into our hearts and lives, it will affect those around us.
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While most of those who hold that the whole heaven is finite say that the earth lies at the center, the philosophers of Italy, the so-called Pythagoreans, assert the contrary. They say that in the middle there is fire, and that the earth is one of the stars, and by its circular motion round the center produces night and day.
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Some write a narrative of wars and feats, Of heroes little known, and call the rant A history.
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The right question is usually more important than the right answer.
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Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each other to pieces.
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She knows who she is, because she knows who she isn't.
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An object that is at rest will tend to stay at rest. An object that is in motion will tend to stay in motion.
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There's only one requirement for enjoying God's grace: being broke . . . and knowing it.
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We are too near the scene of tragedy to realize that this canker or untouchability has traveled far beyond its prescribed limits and has sapped the very foundation of the whole nation.
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The difference between a beginning teacher and an experienced one is that the beginning teacher asks, "How am I doing?" and the experienced teacher asks, How are the children doing?
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I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century.
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It kind of went from coming back into my apartment in New York and finding boxes of pictures of myself with Lucifer written all over them, and a guy who wanted to cut me up and eat me, to an Italian just recently who dreamt that I wanted to marry him.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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I exhort all, who reverence the Word of the Lord, to read it, and diligently imprint it on their memory.
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Reverence invites Revelation.
