black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Historians should tell only that part of the truth that is inspiring and uplifting.

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

Believe Ideas Life Preposterous
We were given our agency. We must use it wisely and remain close to the Spirit; otherwise, we foolishly find ourselves yielding to the enticements of the adversary.
BOYD K. PACKER

Agency Enticements Otherwise Spirit Use
Some people think a miracle is only a miracle if it happens instantaneously, but miracles can grow slowly and patience and faith can compel things to happen that otherwise never would have come to pass.
BOYD K. PACKER

Faith People Thinking
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
We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see.
BOYD K. PACKER

Blind Health Life Obedience
This shield of faith is best fabricated in a cottage industry. While the shield can be polished in classes in the Church and in activities, it is meant to be handcrafted in the home and fitted to each individual.
BOYD K. PACKER

Each Individual Fabricated Faith
The answer is the same for everyone: we must, and we can, resist temptations of any kind.
BOYD K. PACKER

Answers Kind Temptation
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
If our view is limited to mortal life, some things become unbearable because they seem so unfair and so permanent.
BOYD K. PACKER

Unbearable Unfair Views
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
Tolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice.
BOYD K. PACKER

Tolerance Vices Virtue
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.
BOYD K. PACKER

Convince Done Tools Us
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
If you will turn away from sin, you will be able one day to know the peace that comes from following the pathway of complete repentance.
BOYD K. PACKER

Able Away Pathway Peace Repentance
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
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

Historians should tell only that part of the truth that is inspiring and uplifting.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Historians should tell only that part of the truth that is inspiring and uplifting.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Boyd K. Packer Quotes