Boyd K. Packer Quotes
-
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.
-
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.
-
I counsel our children to do their critical studying in the early hours of the morning when they're fresh and alert, rather than to fight physical weariness and mental exhaustion at night. I've learned the power of the dictum, "Early to bed, early to rise." When I'm under pressure, you won't find me burning the midnight oil. I'd much rather be in bed early and getting up in the wee hours of the morning.
-
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."
-
Freedom is not a self-preserving gift. It has to be earned, and it has to be protected.
-
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!
-
If you understand the great plan of happiness and follow it, what goes on in the world will not determine your happiness.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Often, very often, we are punished as much by our sins as we are for them.
-
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.
-
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.
-
If our view is limited to mortal life, some things become unbearable because they seem so unfair and so permanent.
-
His judgments are just; His mercy without limit; His power to compensate beyond any earthly comparison.
-
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.
-
Music can set an atmosphere of worship which invites the spirit of revelation, of testimony.
-
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.
-
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.
-
There are few things more powerful than the faithful prayers of a righteous mother.
-
Tolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice.
-
Family time is sacred time and should be protected and respected.
-
Devotion to the family and devotion to the Church are not different and separate things.
-
How grateful we are for you, our youth.
-
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.