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.
BOYD K. PACKERThe 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.
More Boyd K. Packer Quotes
-
-
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.
BOYD K. PACKER -
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 -
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.
BOYD K. PACKER -
We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see.
BOYD K. PACKER -
How grateful we are for you, our youth.
BOYD K. PACKER -
Fear is the opposite of faith. We move forward, certain that the Lord will watch over us, particularly in the family.
BOYD K. PACKER -
The idea that life began with mortal birth is preposterous. There is no way to explain life if you believe that.
BOYD K. PACKER -
It was meant to be that life would be a challenge. To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal.
BOYD K. PACKER -
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 -
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 -
Justice can seem to be so very demanding. But we must learn that when we put everything as right as we can put it right, it is Justice who invokes the Atonement, orders the adversary off our property, and posts the notice that his agents will make no more collections from us.
BOYD K. PACKER -
The house of the Lord, bathed in light, standing out in the darkness, becomes symbolic of the power and the inspiration of the gospel of Jesus Christ standing as a beacon in a world that sinks ever further into spiritual darkness.
BOYD K. PACKER -
If our view is limited to mortal life, some things become unbearable because they seem so unfair and so permanent.
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 -
Mature love has a bliss not even imagined by newlyweds.
BOYD K. PACKER