black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

The purest, most beautiful and appealing experiences of life: romance, love, marriage, and parenthood.
BOYD K. PACKER

Beautiful Love Marriage Romance
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.
BOYD K. PACKER

Independent Responsibility Self
Christ’s mercy is the mighty healer; even to the wounded innocent.
BOYD K. PACKER

Christ Innocent Mercy
The first gift that Adam and Eve received was agency: ‘Thou mayest choose for thyself, for it is given unto thee’ (Moses 3:17).
BOYD K. PACKER

Agency Choose Eve Mind Received Temptation
We live in a day when the adversary stresses on every hand the philosophy of instant gratification. We seem to demand instant everything, including instant solutions to our problems. . .
BOYD K. PACKER

Disappointment Philosophy Stress
He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty” – Lao-tsu One who can control his thoughts has conquered himself.
BOYD K. PACKER

Conquer Laos Strong
Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.
BOYD K. PACKER

Recycle Reuse Use
The idea that life began with mortal birth is preposterous. There is no way to explain life if you believe that.
BOYD K. PACKER

Believe Ideas Life Preposterous
The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ has the nourishing power to heal starving spirits of the world.
BOYD K. PACKER

Book Christ Jesus Nourishment Power World
Life moves all too fast. When you feel weak, discouraged, depressed, or afraid, open the Book of Mormon and read.
BOYD K. PACKER

Book Discourage Moving
There is a falsehood that some are born with an attraction to their own kind, with nothing they can do about it. They are just ‘that way’ and can only yield to those desires. That is a malicious and destructive lie. While it is a convincing idea to some, it is of the devil.
BOYD K. PACKER

Father Husband Lying
Music can set an atmosphere of worship which invites [the] spirit of revelation, of testimony.
BOYD K. PACKER

Atmosphere Music Spirit
If you stumble, rise up, go on.
BOYD K. PACKER

Goes Rise Stumble
In all that we do in the Church, we need to provide the way, as leaders, for parents and children to have time together as families.
BOYD K. PACKER

Children Leader Parent
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
You ought to know that the Lord loves you. He will make that known to you, and it will be a very private and individual experience, something you cannot explain to anyone else.
BOYD K. PACKER

Individual Lord Love Ought You

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Boyd K. Packer Quotes