110+ Boyd K. Packer Quotes On Education, Faith And Death

Boyd K. Packer was an American religious leader who served as president of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 2008 until his death in 2015. He was known for his conservative views on social and political issues and was a prolific author, writing many books and articles on religious topics. Packer was also a popular speaker and was widely known for his humorous stories and parables. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Boyd K. Packer on leadership, education, faith.

Top 10 Boyd K. Packer Quotes

1. There are few things more powerful than the faithful prayers of a righteous mother.
2. Keep 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.
3. Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.
4. 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.
5. Punctuality is an essential trait of the teacher. It is a foundation, not an embellishment.
6. 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.
7. Just as chalk can be removed from a chalkboard, with sincere repentance, the effects of our transgression can be erased through the atonement of Jesus Christ.
8. To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal.
9. There is a temptation for the writer or the teacher of Church history to want to tell everything, whether it is worthy or faith promoting or not. Some things that are true are not very useful.
10. In or out of marriage, abortion is not an individual choice. At a minimum, three lives are involved.

Boyd K. Packer Short Quotes

• We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see.
• Take hold of your life and order yourself to be valiant.
• Despite the opposition, trials, and temptations, you need not fail or fear.
• Our competition in life is solely with our old self.
• Reverence invites Revelation
• However common irreverence and profanity become, they are nonetheless wrong
• Happily ever after never happens in the second act.
• Do not ever disturb prelude music for others, for reverence is essential to revelation
• Mature love has a bliss not even imagined by newlyweds.
• Don't live so that your children go unled because of habits that leave you uninspired.

Boyd K. Packer Quotes About Faith

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 is the power, obedience the sacrifice, love the means, Christ the reason. — Boyd K. Packer

Faith is a real power, not just an expression of belief. — Boyd K. Packer

I bear witness of the power of the priesthood given to the Church to protect us and guide us. And because we have that, we have no fear of the future. Fear is the opposite of faith. We move forward, certain that the Lord will watch over us, particularly in the family. — Boyd K. Packer

What a wonderful time to be young. You will see events in your lifetime that will test your courage and extend your faith. If you will face the sunlight of truth, the shadows of discouragement and sin and error will fall behind you. You must never give up! — Boyd K. Packer

If you have stumbled or even been lost for a time, you can move forward with faith and not wander to and fro in the world any longer. — Boyd K. Packer

The gospel teaches us to be happy, to have faith rather than fear, to find hope and overcome despair, to leave darkness and turn toward the light of the everlasting gospel. — Boyd K. Packer

It is my conviction that your generation is better and stronger than was ours... better in many ways! I have the faith that you young men and young women can meet the world on its own terms and conquer it. — Boyd K. Packer

Dispute not because ye see not, for ye receive no witness until after the trial of your faith. — Boyd K. Packer

Boyd K. Packer Quotes About Prayer

Prayer is your personal key to heaven. — Boyd K. Packer

If prayer is to leave the public schools, let the ridicule of prayer leave also. — Boyd K. Packer

The Atonement has practical, personal, everyday value; apply it in your life. It can be activated with so simple a beginning as prayer. — Boyd K. Packer

The Restoration began with the prayer of a 14-year-old boy and a vision of the Father and the Son. The dispensation of the fulness of times was ushered in. — Boyd K. Packer

If you need a transfusion of spiritual strength then just ask for it. We call that Prayer. Prayer is powerful spiritual medicine. — Boyd K. Packer

Learn to pray. Pray often. Pray in your mind, in your heart. Pray on your knees. Prayer is your personal key to heaven. The lock is on your side of the veil. And I have learned to conclude all my prayers with ‘Thy will be done’ (Matthew 6:10; see also Luke 11:2; 3 Nephi 13:10). — Boyd K. Packer

Boyd K. Packer Quotes About Mercy

His judgments are just; His mercy without limit; His power to compensate beyond any earthly comparison. — Boyd K. Packer

Christ's mercy is the mighty healer; even to the wounded innocent. — Boyd K. Packer

The atonement of Christ is not just for those who sin. The mercy of Christ encompasses all pain. — Boyd K. Packer

Nowhere are the generosity and the kindness and mercy of God more manifest than in repentance. — Boyd K. Packer

Boyd K. Packer Quotes About Inspiring

No 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. Packer

Inherent in the ordination to be bishop is both the right and the obligation to be directed by inspiration. — Boyd K. Packer

It is in the ordinances of the temple that we are placed under covenant to Him….[If] we will enter into our covenants without reservation or apology, the Lord will protect us. We will receive inspiration sufficient for the challenges of life. — Boyd K. Packer

Your secret yearnings and tearful pleadings will touch the heart of both the Father and the Son. — Boyd K. Packer

No one of us can survive in the world of today, much less what it will become, without personal inspiration. — Boyd K. Packer

Boyd K. Packer Famous Quotes And Sayings

You are a child of God. He is father of your spirit. Spiritually you are of noble birth, the offspring of the King of Heaven. 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

True doctrine, understood, changes attitudes and behavior. The study of the doctrines of the gospel will improve behavior quicker than a study of behavior will improve behavior. Preoccupation with unworthy behavior can lead to unworthy behavior. That is why we stress so forcefully the study of the doctrines of the gospel. — Boyd K. Packer

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. . .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

Temple. One other word is equal in importance to a Latter-day Saint. Home. Put the words holy temple and home together, and you have described the house of the Lord! — Boyd K. Packer

Those who speak of blind obedience may appear to know many things, but they do not understand the doctrines of the gospel. There is an obedience that comes from a knowledge of the truth that transcends any external form of control. We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see. — Boyd K. Packer

You may in time of trouble think that you are not worth saving because you have made mistakes, big or little, and you think you are now lost. That is never true! Only repentance can heal what hurts. But repentancecan heal what hurts, no matter what it is. — Boyd K. Packer

Like most things of great worth, knowledge which is of eternal value comes only through personal prayer and pondering. These, joined with fasting and scripture study, will invite impressions and revelations and the whisperings of the Holy Spirit. This provides us with instruction from on high as we learn precept upon precept. — Boyd K. Packer

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

An organist who has the sensitivity to quietly play prelude music from the hymnbook tempers our feelings and causes us to go over in our minds the lyrics which teach the peaceable things of the kingdom. If we will listen, they are teaching the gospel, for the hymns of the Restoration are, in fact, a course in doctrine! — Boyd K. Packer

Seek worthy companions. Attend church faithfully. Never fail daily to seek for help through prayer. And I promise you that the way will be easier and you shall have a composure of mind and a confident attitude toward life and the future. You shall be warned of dangers and shall be guided through the whisperings of the Holy Spirit. — Boyd K. Packer

The ultimate purpose of every teaching, every activity in the Church is that parents and their children are happy at home, sealed in an eternal marriage, and linked to their generations. — Boyd K. Packer

If you have seen one of the temples at night, fully lighted, you know what an impressive sight that can be. 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

At the temple the dust of distraction seems to settle out, the fog and the haze seem to lift, and we can 'see' things that we were not able to see before and find a way through our troubles that we had not previously known. — Boyd K. Packer

If you understand the great plan of happiness and follow it, what goes on in the world will not determine your happiness. — Boyd K. Packer

Every soul confined in a prison of sin, guilt, or perversion has a key to the gate. The key is labeled “repentance.” If you know how to use this key, the adversary cannot hold you. — Boyd K. Packer

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

It was meant to be that life would be a challenge. To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal. 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

The rapid, sweeping deterioration of values is characterized by a preoccupation-even an obsession-with the procreative act. Abstinence before marriage and fidelity within it are openly scoffed at-marriage and parenthood ridiculed as burdensome, unnecessary. Modesty, a virtue of a refined individual or society, is all but gone. — Boyd K. Packer

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

Ordinances and covenants become our credentials for admission into His presence. To worthily receive them is the quest of a lifetime; to keep them thereafter is the challenge of mortality. — Boyd K. Packer

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

The priesthood holds consummate power. It can protect you from the plague of pornography-and it is a plague-if you are succumbing to its influence. If one is obedient, the priesthood can show how to break a habit and even erase an addiction. Holders of the priesthood have that authority and should employ it to combat evil influences. — Boyd K. Packer

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

This great circle of sisters will be a protection for each of you and for your families. The Relief Society might be likened to a refuge- the place of safety and protection- the sanctuary of ancient times. You will be safe within it. It encircles each sister like a protecting wall. — Boyd K. Packer

The gospel stands as true for those who reject it as for those who accept it - both will be judged by it. — Boyd K. Packer

Some suffer from real misfortunes. Sadly, others only imagine that they do. — Boyd K. Packer

The gift of the Holy Ghost operates equally with men, women, and even little children. It is within this wondrous gift and power that the spiritual remedy to any problem can be found. — Boyd K. Packer

Things we cannot solve, we must survive. — Boyd K. Packer

The power of procreation is not an incidental part of the plan; it is the plan of happiness. — 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

We are not free to break our covenants and escape the consequences. — Boyd K. Packer

The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ has the nourishing power to heal starving spirits of the world. — Boyd K. Packer

Parents are with their children almost constantly and can observe when they are ready to be instructed. From questions or behavior or because of experiences in their own lives, they can sense that it is time to teach. Parents must know when the time for the lesson is now, right now, for their children are ready for it. — Boyd K. Packer

Tolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice. — Boyd K. Packer

Family time is sacred time and should be protected and respected. — Boyd K. Packer

We accept the responsibility to preach the gospel to every person on earth. And if the question is asked, you mean you are out to convert the entire world? The answer is, 'yes'. We will try to reach every living soul. — Boyd K. Packer

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

If you stumble, rise up, go on. — Boyd K. Packer

Teach yourself and teach your families about the gift of the Holy Ghost and the Atonement of Jesus Christ. You will do no greater eternal work than within the walls of your own home. — Boyd K. Packer

Music can set an atmosphere of worship which invites [the] spirit of revelation, of testimony. — Boyd K. Packer

Moral standards cannot be changed by battle and cannot be changed by ballot. — Boyd K. Packer

You always hold the key of repentance to unlock the prison door. If they throw the word diversity at you, grab hold of it and say, "I am already diverse, and I intend to stay diverse." If the word is tolerance, grab that one, too, saying, "I expect you to be tolerant of my lifestyle-obedience, integrity, abstinence, repentance." If the word is choice, tell them you choose good, old-fashioned morality. — Boyd K. Packer

A testimony of the hope of redemption is something which cannot be measured or counted. Jesus Christ is the source of that hope. — Boyd K. Packer

Some worry endlessly over missions that were missed, or marriages that did not turn out, or babies that did not arrive, or children that seem lost, or dreams unfulfilled, or because age limits what they can do. I 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....Some needlessly carry a heavy burden of guilt which could be removed through confession and repentance. — Boyd K. Packer

Our lives are made up of thousands of everyday choices. Over the years these little choices will be bundled together and show clearly what we value. — Boyd K. Packer

The purest, most beautiful and appealing experiences of life: romance, love, marriage, and parenthood. — Boyd K. Packer

In the eternal scheme of things - not always in mortality - righteous yearning and longing will be fulfilled. — Boyd K. Packer

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. 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

A testimony is a testimony, and it should be respected, whether it is small or large. — Boyd K. Packer

You cannot force spiritual things. A testimony is not thrust upon you; it grows. And a testimony is a testimony, and it should be respected, whether it is small or large. We become taller in our testimony like we grow in physical stature and hardly know it is happening, because it comes by growth. — Boyd K. Packer

Most of what we acquire materially is found to not be worth what we must pay spiritually. — Boyd K. Packer

Arms now empty will be filled and hearts now hurting from broken dreams and yearning will be healed. — Boyd K. Packer

The 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. — Boyd K. Packer

If you are burdened with depressing feelings of guilt or disappointment, of failure or shame, there is a cure. — 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

There are many things about living the gospel of Jesus Christ that cannot be measured by that which is counted or charted in records of attendance. — Boyd K. Packer

The flak is always the heaviest closest to the target — Boyd K. Packer

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

One who can control his thoughts has conquered himself. — Boyd K. Packer

I 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. — Boyd K. Packer

Life moves all too fast. When you feel weak, discouraged, depressed, or afraid, open the Book of Mormon and read. — Boyd K. Packer

The answer is the same for everyone: we must, and we can, resist temptations of any kind. — Boyd K. Packer

Some things that are true are not very useful. — Boyd K. Packer

Teaching some things that are true, prematurely or at the wrong time, can invite sorrow and heartbreak instead of the joy intended to accompany learning.... The scriptures teach emphatically that we must give milk before meat. The Lord made it very clear that some things are to be taught selectively and some things are to be given only to those who are worthy. — Boyd K. Packer

Perhaps no other book has been denounced so vigorously by those who have never read it as has the Book of Mormon. — Boyd K. Packer

No service in the Church or in the community transcends that given in the home. — Boyd K. Packer

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

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

The Word of Wisdom does not promise you perfect health, but it teaches how to keep the body you were born with in the best condition and your mind alert to delicate spiritual promptings. — Boyd K. Packer

The end of all activity in the church is to see that a man and a woman with their children are happy at home, sealed for eternity. — Boyd K. Packer

There are spiritual and physical laws to obey if we are to be happy. — Boyd K. Packer

There is also an age-old excuse: “The devil made me do it.” Not so! He can deceive you and mislead you, but he does not have the power to force you or anyone else to transgress or to keep you in transgression. — Boyd K. Packer

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

Everyone is tested. One might think it is unfair to be singled out and subjected to a particular temptation, but this is the purpose of mortal life—to be tested. And the answer is the same for everyone: we must, and we can, resist temptations of any kind. — Boyd K. Packer

Often, very often, we are punished as much by our sins as we are for them. — Boyd K. Packer

I have a hard time with historians because they idolize the truth. The truth is not uplifting; it destroys. I could tell most of the secretaries in the church office building that they are ugly and fat. That would be the truth, but it would hurt and destroy them. Historians should tell only that part of the truth that is inspiring and uplifting. — Boyd K. Packer

Life Lessons by Boyd K. Packer

1. Boyd K. Packer taught that faith and obedience to God are essential for true happiness and peace.
2. He also emphasized the importance of understanding and following the teachings of Jesus Christ and the prophets.
3. Through his work, Boyd K. Packer showed us that living a life of service and love is the key to fulfilling our divine potential.