Boyd K. Packer Quotes - Page 6

Nowhere are the generosity and the kindness and mercy of God more manifest than in repentance.

There is also an age-old excuse: “The devil made me do it.” Not so! He can deceive you and mislead you, but he does not have the power to force you or anyone else to transgress or to keep you in transgression.

The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ has the nourishing power to heal starving spirits of the world.

The voice of the Spirit is described in the scriptures as being neither loud nor harsh, not a voice of thunder, neither a voice of great tumultuous noise, but rather as still and small, of perfect mildness, as if it had been a whisper, and it can pierce even the very soul and cause the heart to burn. The Spirit does not get our attention by shouting.

Happily ever after never happens in the second act.

No teaching is equal, more spiritually rewarding, or more exalting than that of a mother teaching her children.

We are not free to break our covenants and escape the consequences.

There are many things about living the gospel of Jesus Christ that cannot be measured by that which is counted or charted in records of attendance.

Without a knowledge of the gospel plan, transgression seems natural, innocent, even justified.

The end of all activity in the church is to see that a man and a woman with their children are happy at home, sealed for eternity.

How grateful we are for you, our youth.

Young men speak about the future because they have no past, and old men speak of the past because they have no future.

There are spiritual and physical laws to obey if we are to be happy.

Joseph's vision of the Father and the Son opened this dispensation. Then came the Restoration of the fulness of the gospel of Jesus Christ with the same organization that existed in the primitive Church, built upon the foundation of apostles and prophets.

If prayer is to leave the public schools, let the ridicule of prayer leave also.

I know that God is our Father. He introduced His Son, Jesus Christ, to Joseph Smith. I declare to you that I know that Jesus is the Christ. I know that He lives. He was born in the meridian of time. He taught His gospel and was tried. He suffered and was crucified and resurrected on the third day. He, like His Father, has a body of flesh and bone. He made His Atonement. Of Him I bear witness. Of Him I am a witness.

Obedience is a powerful spiritual medicine. It comes close to being a cure-all.

I hope to be judged as good a man as my father. Before I hear those words "well done" from my Heavenly Father, I hope to first hear them from my mortal father.

The Word of Wisdom does not promise you perfect health, but it teaches how to keep the body you were born with in the best condition and your mind alert to delicate spiritual promptings.

It is my conviction that your generation is better and stronger than was ours... better in many ways! I have the faith that you young men and young women can meet the world on its own terms and conquer it.

Progression: you can start from where you are.

The priesthood holds consummate power. It can protect you from the plague of pornography-and it is a plague-if you are succumbing to its influence. If one is obedient, the priesthood can show how to break a habit and even erase an addiction. Holders of the priesthood have that authority and should employ it to combat evil influences.

The ultimate effort of everything in the Church is to the end that a father and a mother and their children can be happy at home. If they are happy at home, they are spiritually prepared for whatever should be ahead of them in the world.

The answer is the same for everyone: we must, and we can, resist temptations of any kind.

The gift of the Holy Ghost operates equally with men, women, and even little children. It is within this wondrous gift and power that the spiritual remedy to any problem can be found.