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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• 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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  Jesus, Redemption, Christ

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• One who can control his thoughts has conquered himself.

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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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• Your secret yearnings and tearful pleadings will touch the heart of both the Father and the Son.

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  Inspirational, Spiritual, Father

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• If you stumble, rise up, go on.

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  Goes On, Ifs

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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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• 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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• 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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  Light, Darkness, Despair

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

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  Inspirational, Spiritual, Real

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• The scriptures hold the keys to spiritual protection.

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  Spiritual, Keys, Scripture

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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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• 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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• If our view is limited to mortal life, some things become unbearable because they seem so unfair and so permanent.

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  Views, Unbearable, Unfair

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

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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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• Some worry endlessly over missions that were missed, or marriages that did not turn out, or babies that did not arrive, or children that seem lost, or dreams unfulfilled, or because age limits what they can do. 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....Some needlessly carry a heavy burden of guilt which could be removed through confession and repentance.

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  Dream, Baby, Children

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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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• Prayer is your personal key to heaven.

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  Inspirational, Spiritual, Prayer

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

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