black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

There’s no credit buying on eternal things, none at all. Anything that is worthwhile has to be paid for in advance.

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
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
The ultimate effort of everything in the Church is to the end that a father and a mother and their children can be happy at home. If they are happy at home, they are spiritually prepared for whatever should be ahead of them in the world.
BOYD K. PACKER

Children Father Mother
There is little to be gained by seeking after the mysteries, for there is hardly time in a lifetime to master the plain and precious things.
BOYD K. PACKER

Lifetime Littles Mystery
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
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
Teach our members that if they have a good, miserable day once in a while, or several in a row, to stand steady and face them. Things will straighten out. There is great purpose in our struggle in life.
BOYD K. PACKER

Good Member Purpose Straighten Struggle
Fix that truth in your mind and hold to it. However many generations in your mortal ancestry, no matter what race or people you represent, the pedigree of your spirit can be written on a single line. You are a child of God!
BOYD K. PACKER

Fix Represent Truth Written
Latter-day Saints are not obedient because they are compelled to be obedient. They are obedient because they know certain spiritual truths and have decided, as an expression of their own individual agency, to obey the commandments of God. . . .
BOYD K. PACKER

Agency Expression Spiritual
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
Freedom is not a self-preserving gift. It has to be earned, and it has to be protected.
BOYD K. PACKER

Freedom Protected Self
Music can set an atmosphere of worship which invites [the] spirit of revelation, of testimony.
BOYD K. PACKER

Atmosphere Music Spirit
When temptation comes, you can invent a delete key in your mind- perhaps the words from a favorite hymn. Your mind is in charge; your body is the instrument of your mind.
BOYD K. PACKER

Delete Hymns Keys Powerful Words
Joseph’s vision of the Father and the Son opened this dispensation. Then came the Restoration of the fulness of the gospel of Jesus Christ with the same organization that existed in the primitive Church, built upon the foundation of apostles and prophets.
BOYD K. PACKER

Father Jesus Son Vision
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
Throughout your life there may be times when you have gone places you never should have gone and done things you never should have done.
BOYD K. PACKER

Day One Pathways Place Throughout Time

There’s no credit buying on eternal things, none at all. Anything that is worthwhile has to be paid for in advance.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

There’s no credit buying on eternal things, none at all. Anything that is worthwhile has to be paid for in advance.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Boyd K. Packer Quotes