Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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Progression: you can start from where you are.
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Our competition in life is solely with our old self.
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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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The power of procreation is not an incidental part of the plan; it is the plan of happiness.
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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.
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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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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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Prayer is your personal key to heaven.
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His judgments are just; His mercy without limit; His power to compensate beyond any earthly comparison.
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Your responsibility as a father and a husband transcends any other interest in life.
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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.
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No teaching is equal, more spiritually rewarding, or more exalting than that of a mother teaching her children.
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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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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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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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In or out of marriage, abortion is not an individual choice. At a minimum, three lives are involved.
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The atonement of Christ is not just for those who sin. The mercy of Christ encompasses all pain.
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It was meant to be that life would be a challenge. To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal. Teach our members that if they have a good, miserable day once in a while, or several in a row, to stand steady and face them. Things will straighten out. There is great purpose in our struggle in life.
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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.
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If you are burdened with depressing feelings of guilt or disappointment, of failure or shame, there is a cure.
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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.
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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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Teaching some things that are true, prematurely or at the wrong time, can invite sorrow and heartbreak instead of the joy intended to accompany learning.... The scriptures teach emphatically that we must give milk before meat. The Lord made it very clear that some things are to be taught selectively and some things are to be given only to those who are worthy.
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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.