Boyd K. Packer Quotes - Page 3

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.

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.

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.

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.

If you understand the great plan of happiness and follow it, what goes on in the world will not determine your happiness.

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.

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.

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

You may in time of trouble think that you are not worth saving because you have made mistakes, big or little, and you think you are now lost. That is never true! Only repentance can heal what hurts. But repentancecan heal what hurts, no matter what it is.

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.

Teaching some things that are true, prematurely or at the wrong time, can invite sorrow and heartbreak instead of the joy intended to accompany learning.... The scriptures teach emphatically that we must give milk before meat. The Lord made it very clear that some things are to be taught selectively and some things are to be given only to those who are worthy.

Despite the opposition, trials, and temptations, you need not fail or fear.

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

Tolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice.

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.

It is in the ordinances of the temple that we are placed under covenant to Him….[If] we will enter into our covenants without reservation or apology, the Lord will protect us. We will receive inspiration sufficient for the challenges of life.

If you have stumbled or even been lost for a time, you can move forward with faith and not wander to and fro in the world any longer.

Those who choose, conduct, present, and accompany the music may influence the spirit of reverence ... more than a speaker does.

Our competition in life is solely with our old self.

The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evil.

Often, very often, we are punished as much by our sins as we are for them.

Learn to pray. Pray often. Pray in your mind, in your heart. Pray on your knees. Prayer is your personal key to heaven. The lock is on your side of the veil. And I have learned to conclude all my prayers with ‘Thy will be done’ (Matthew 6:10; see also Luke 11:2; 3 Nephi 13:10).

The Lord will bless us as we attend to the sacred ordinance work of the temples. Blessings there will not be limited to our temple service. We will be blessed in all of our affairs.

Some suffer from real misfortunes. Sadly, others only imagine that they do.

Music can set an atmosphere of worship which invites [the] spirit of revelation, of testimony.