black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

Boyd K. Packer

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.
BOYD K. PACKER

Cal Children Husband Wives Released
At the temple the dust of distraction seems to settle out, the fog and the haze seem to lift, and we can ‘see’ things that we were not able to see before and find a way through our troubles that we had not previously known.
BOYD K. PACKER

Able Distraction Dust Fog Temple
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.
BOYD K. PACKER

Balance Fate Generation Largely
Repentance is the key with which we can unlock the prison from inside. We hold that key within our hands, and agency is ours to use it.
BOYD K. PACKER

Agency Hands Keys Repetancy Unlock
Devotion to the family and devotion to the Church are not different and separate things.
BOYD K. PACKER

Church Different Family
Historians should tell only that part of the truth that is inspiring and uplifting.
BOYD K. PACKER

Historians Inspire Truth
Moral standards cannot be changed by battle and cannot be changed by ballot.
BOYD K. PACKER

Bailout Battle Moral Standards
No one of us can survive in the world of today, much less what it will become, without personal inspiration.
BOYD K. PACKER

Inspiration Today World
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. PACKER

Able Art Music Spiritual
You have that same agency. Use it wisely to deny acting on any impure impulse or unholy temptation that may come into your mind. Just do not go there, and if you are already there, come back out of it. ‘Deny yourselves of all ungodliness’ (Moroni 10:32).
BOYD K. PACKER

Already Come Impulse Mind Use
I’m not ashamed to say that I want to be good. And I’ve found in my life that it has been critically important to establish this intention between me and the Lord so that I knew that HE knew which way I committed my agency.
BOYD K. PACKER

Agency Differences Giving
Despite the opposition, trials, and temptations, you need not fail or fear.
BOYD K. PACKER

Needs Temptation Trials
The flak is always the heaviest closest to the target
BOYD K. PACKER

Closest Ministry Target
We could be like a father determined to provide everything for his family. He devotes every energy to that end and succeeds; only then does he discover that what they needed most, to be together as a family, has been neglected. And he reaps sorrow in place of contentment.
BOYD K. PACKER

Father Parenting Sorrow
Young men speak about the future because they have no past, and old men speak of the past because they have no future.
BOYD K. PACKER

Men Past Speak Young
In a sense, speaking figuratively, to take one’s agency, that precious gift which the scriptures make plain is essential to life itself, and say, “I will do as you direct,” is afterward to learn that in so doing you possess it all the more.
BOYD K. PACKER

Afterward Discovery Greatest Learn Scriptures

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Boyd K. Packer Quotes