Boyd K. Packer Quotes

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• There are few things more powerful than the faithful prayers of a righteous mother.

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  Inspirational, Mother, Spiritual

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• True doctrine, understood, changes attitudes and behavior. The study of the doctrines of the gospel will improve behavior quicker than a study of behavior will improve behavior. Preoccupation with unworthy behavior can lead to unworthy behavior. That is why we stress so forcefully the study of the doctrines of the gospel.

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  Attitude, Stress, Doctrine

  Boyd K. Packer (1998). “The shield of faith”, Bookcraft, Incorporated

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• Perhaps the greatest discovery of my life, without question the greatest commitment, came when finally I had the confidence in God that I would loan or yield my agency to him-without compulsion or pressure, without any duress, as a single individual alone, by myself, no counterfeiting, nothing expected other than the privilege. In a sense, speaking figuratively, to take one's agency, that precious gift which the scriptures make plain is essential to life itself, and say, "I will do as you direct," is afterward to learn that in so doing you possess it all the more.

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  Life, Commitment, Yield

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• No one of us can survive in the world of today, much less what it will become, without personal inspiration.

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  Inspiration, World, Today

  "Guided by Inspiration". The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Website, www.lds.org.

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• We live in a day when the adversary stresses on every hand the philosophy of instant gratification. We seem to demand instant everything, including instant solutions to our problems. . .It was meant to be that life would be a challenge. To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal.

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  Disappointment, Philosophy, Stress

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• It has to be an awfully good meeting to beat having no meeting at all.

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  Beats, Meetings

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• Some people think a miracle is only a miracle if it happens instantaneously, but miracles can grow slowly and patience and faith can compel things to happen that otherwise never would have come to pass.

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  Faith, Thinking, People

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• Life moves all too fast. When you feel weak, discouraged, depressed, or afraid, open the Book of Mormon and read.

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  Moving, Book, Discouraged

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• Faith is the power, obedience the sacrifice, love the means, Christ the reason.

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  Mean, Sacrifice, Christ

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• One who can control his thoughts has conquered himself.

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• Reverence invites Revelation

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  Missionary, Revelations, Reverence

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• We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see.

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  Blind, Obedience, Blind Obedience

  Boyd K. Packer (1998). “The shield of faith”, Bookcraft, Incorporated

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• Latter-day Saints are not obedient because they are compelled to be obedient. They are obedient because they know certain spiritual truths and have decided, as an expression of their own individual agency, to obey the commandments of God. . . . We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see

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  Spiritual, Expression, Agency

  Boyd K. Packer (1998). “The shield of faith”, Bookcraft, Incorporated

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• If you stumble, rise up, go on.

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  Goes On, Ifs

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• Faith is a real power, not just an expression of belief.

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  Inspirational, Spiritual, Real

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• 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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  Fate, Balance, This Generation

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• 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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  Teaching, Doctrine, Study

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• 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. If everything has to be known, if everything has to be explained, if everything has to be certified, then there is no need for faith. Indeed, there is no room for it.

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  Light, Darkness, Rooms

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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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  Convince Us, Tools, Done

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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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  Children, Husband, Wife

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• Just as chalk can be removed from a chalkboard, with sincere repentance, the effects of our transgression can be erased through the atonement of Jesus Christ.

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  Jesus, Atonement, Christ

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• 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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  Thinking, Temptation, Purpose

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• Happiness is inseparably connected with decent, clean behavior.

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  Behavior, Clean, Decent

  Boyd K. Packer (1998). “The shield of faith”, Bookcraft, Incorporated

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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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  Independent, Responsibility, Self

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• 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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  Children, Fire, Hands

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