If you stumble, rise up, go on.
BOYD K. PACKERIf you stumble, rise up, go on.
BOYD K. PACKEROne thing is very clear: the safest place and the best protection against the moral and spiritual diseases is a stable home and family. This has always been true; it will be true forever. We must keep that foremost in our minds.
BOYD K. PACKERSomewhere there is a message in the protest of the man who said, “You can’t tell me that worry doesn’t help. The things I worry about never happen.”
BOYD K. PACKERLargely 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. PACKERFamily time is sacred time and should be protected and respected.
BOYD K. PACKERNo pain will last forever. It is not easy, but life was never meant to be either easy or fair. Repentance and the lasting hope that forgiveness brings will always be worth the effort.
BOYD K. PACKERRepentance 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. PACKERIn the eternal scheme of things – not always in mortality – righteous yearning and longing will be fulfilled.
BOYD K. PACKERThe 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. PACKERIf you need a transfusion of spiritual strength then just ask for it. We call that Prayer. Prayer is powerful spiritual medicine.
BOYD K. PACKERAddiction has the capacity to disconnect the human will and nullify moral agency. It can rob one of the power to decide.
BOYD K. PACKEREverything that I have learned from the revelations and from life convinces me that there is time and to spare for you to carefully prepare for a long life.
BOYD K. PACKERWe 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. PACKERNo one of us can survive in the world of today, much less what it will become, without personal inspiration.
BOYD K. PACKERKeep the fire of your testimony of the restored gospel and your witness of our Redeemer burning so brightly that our children can warm their hands by the fire of your faith.
BOYD K. PACKERI do not think it pleases the Lord when we worry because we think we never do enough or that what we do is never good enough.
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