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

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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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• 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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• There is a falsehood that some are born with an attraction to their own kind, with nothing they can do about it. They are just 'that way' and can only yield to those desires. That is a malicious and destructive lie. While it is a convincing idea to some, it is of the devil. No one is locked into that kind of life. From our premoral life we were directed into a physical body. There is no mismatching of bodies and spirits. Boys are to become men-masculine, manly men-ultimately to become husbands and fathers. No one is predestined to a perverted use of these powers.

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  Husband, Lying, Father

  "To Young Men Only". Boyd K. Packer's Address at the Priesthood Session of General Conference, October 2, 1976.

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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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• 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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  Integrity, Doors, Keys

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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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• If you stumble, rise up, go on.

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  Goes On, Ifs

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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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• 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 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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• 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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  Teacher, Scary, Temptation

  "The Mantle Is Far, Far Greater Than the Intellect" by Boyd K. Packer, www.lds.org. 2004.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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  Children, Teaching, Home

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

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• You are a child of God. He is father of your spirit. Spiritually you are of noble birth, the offspring of the King of Heaven. Fix that truth in your mind and hold to it. However many generations in your mortal ancestry, no matter what race or people you represent, the pedigree of your spirit can be written on a single line. You are a child of God!

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  Kings, Children, Father

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