Boyd K. Packer Quotes

There are few things more powerful than the faithful prayers of a righteous mother.

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.

Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.

A testimony of the hope of redemption is something which cannot be measured or counted. Jesus Christ is the source of that hope.

Punctuality is an essential trait of the teacher. It is a foundation, not an embellishment.

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.

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.

One who can control his thoughts has conquered himself.

Happiness is inseparably connected with decent, clean behavior.

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.

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

If you are burdened with depressing feelings of guilt or disappointment, of failure or shame, there is a cure.

Faith is the power, obedience the sacrifice, love the means, Christ the reason.

We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see.

In or out of marriage, abortion is not an individual choice. At a minimum, three lives are involved.

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.

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!

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.

Prayer is your personal key to heaven.

Take hold of your life and order yourself to be valiant.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

The guilt that accompanies mistakes can be washed away.

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

Every soul confined in a prison of sin, guilt, or perversion has a key to the gate. The key is labeled “repentance.” If you know how to use this key, the adversary cannot hold you.

It has to be an awfully good meeting to beat having no meeting at all.

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

Reverence invites Revelation

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.

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

However common irreverence and profanity become, they are nonetheless wrong

Our competition in life is solely with our old self.

The study of doctrine and the teaching of doctrine will change behavior more than the study of behavior will change behavior.

Arms now empty will be filled and hearts now hurting from broken dreams and yearning will be healed.

Do not ever disturb prelude music for others, for reverence is essential to revelation

Happily ever after never happens in the second act.

There is little to be gained by seeking after the mysteries, for there is hardly time in a lifetime to master the plain and precious things.

Life moves all too fast. When you feel weak, discouraged, depressed, or afraid, open the Book of Mormon and read.

Mature love has a bliss not even imagined by newlyweds.

Don't live so that your children go unled because of habits that leave you uninspired.

Ordinances and covenants become our credentials for admission into His presence. To worthily receive them is the quest of a lifetime; to keep them thereafter is the challenge of mortality.

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

Things we cannot solve, we must survive.

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

Thoughts, like water, will stay on course if we make a place for them to go. As you learn to control your thoughts, you can gain courage, conquer fear and have a happy life.

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