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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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In many places it is literally not safe physically for youngsters to go to school. And in many schools, and its becoming almost generally true, it is spiritually unsafe to attend public schools. Look back over the history of education to the turn of the century and the beginning of the educational philosophies, pragmatism and humanism were the early ones, and they branched out into a number of other philosophies which have led us now into a circumstance where our schools are producing the problems that we face.

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Philosophy, Educational, School

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Like most things of great worth, knowledge which is of eternal value comes only through personal prayer and pondering. These, joined with fasting and scripture study, will invite impressions and revelations and the whisperings of the Holy Spirit. This provides us with instruction from on high as we learn precept upon precept.

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Prayer, Fasting, Whispering

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One who can control his thoughts has conquered himself.

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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 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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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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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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Tolerance is a virtue, but like all virtues, when exaggerated, it transforms itself into a vice. We need to be careful of the “tolerance trap” so that we are not swallowed up in it. The permissiveness afforded by the weakening of the laws of the land to tolerate legalized acts of immorality does not reduce the serious spiritual consequence that is the result of the violation of God’s law of chastity.

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Spiritual, Law, Land

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To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal.

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Disappointment, Anxiety, Suffering

Boyd K. Packer (1982). “That All May be Edified: Talks, Sermons & Commentary”, Bookcraft Pubs

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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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Depressing, Disappointment, Feelings

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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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No pain will last forever. It is not easy, but life was never meant to be either easy or fair. Repentance and the lasting hope that forgiveness brings will always be worth the effort.

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Inspirational, Spiritual, Pain

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Temple. One other word is equal in importance to a Latter-day Saint. Home. Put the words holy temple and home together, and you have described the house of the Lord!

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Home, House, Together

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

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We are able to feel and learn very quickly through music, through art, through poetry some spiritual things that we would otherwise learn very slowly.

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Music, Spiritual, Art

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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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Life, Disappointment, Struggle

Boyd K. Packer (1982). “That All May be Edified: Talks, Sermons & Commentary”, Bookcraft Pubs

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Born: September 10, 1924
Died: July 3, 2015
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