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.
BOYD K. PACKERThroughout your life there may be times when you have gone places you never should have gone and done things you never should have done.
More Boyd K. Packer Quotes
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Happiness will depend on what each of us does with what each has, what we learn from what we do, and what we do thereafter.
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Arms now empty will be filled and hearts now hurting from broken dreams and yearning will be healed.
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Devotion to the family and devotion to the Church are not different and separate things.
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The Spirit is a voice that one feels more than hears.
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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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I have a hard time with historians because they idolize the truth. The truth is not uplifting; it destroys. I could tell most of the secretaries in the church office building that they are ugly and fat. That would be the truth, but it would hurt and destroy them.
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The idea that life began with mortal birth is preposterous. There is no way to explain life if you believe that.
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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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The spiritually starving hesitate to partake of the Spirit like a child’s reaction to new and strange food. They must be offered a tiny bite on a spoon.
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Hit the ‘delete’ button when you have unrighteous thoughts.
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When some unworthy thought pushes into your mind, replace it with your delete key. Worthy music is powerful and can help you control your thoughts.
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Behold, he who has repented of his sins, the same is forgiven, and I, the Lord, remember them no more.
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Moral standards cannot be changed by battle and cannot be changed by ballot.
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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.
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Fear is the opposite of faith. We move forward, certain that the Lord will watch over us, particularly in the family.
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