Top 120 Boyd K. Packer Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.”

— Boyd K. Packer

2. “It has to be an awfully good meeting to beat having no meeting at all.”

— Boyd K. Packer

3. “Punctuality is an essential trait of the teacher. It is a foundation, not an embellishment.”

— Boyd K. Packer

4. “There are few things more powerful than the faithful prayers of a righteous mother.”

— Boyd K. Packer

5. “The study of doctrine and the teaching of doctrine will change behavior more than the study of behavior will change behavior.”

— Boyd K. Packer

6. “We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see.”

— Boyd K. Packer

7. “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

8. “Reverence invites Revelation.”

— Boyd K. Packer

9. “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

10. “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

11. “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

12. “The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ has the nourishing power to heal starving spirits of the world.”

— Boyd K. Packer

13. “Family time is sacred time and should be protected and respected.”

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14. “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

15. “Life moves all too fast. When you feel weak, discouraged, depressed, or afraid, open the Book of Mormon and read.”

— Boyd K. Packer

16. “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

17. “Take hold of your life and order yourself to be valiant.”

— Boyd K. Packer

18. “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.”

— Boyd K. Packer

19. “Prayer is your personal key to heaven.”

— Boyd K. Packer

20. “Dispute not because ye see not, for ye receive no witness until after the trial of your faith.”

— Boyd K. Packer

21. “His judgments are just; His mercy without limit; His power to compensate beyond any earthly comparison.”

— Boyd K. Packer

22. “Faith is the power, obedience the sacrifice, love the means, Christ the reason.”

— Boyd K. Packer

23. “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

24. “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

25. “Progression: you can start from where you are.”

— Boyd K. Packer

26. “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

27. “The flak is always the heaviest closest to the target.”

— Boyd K. Packer

28. “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

29. “Young men speak about the future because they have no past, and old men speak of the past because they have no future.”

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30. “Repentance 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. Packer

31. “Behold, he who has repented of his sins, the same is forgiven, and I, the Lord, remember them no more.”

— Boyd K. Packer

32. “Things we cannot solve, we must survive.”

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33. “If you stumble, rise up, go on.”

— Boyd K. Packer

34. “One who can control his thoughts has conquered himself.”

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35. “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

36. “Do not ever disturb prelude music for others, for reverence is essential to revelation.”

— Boyd K. Packer

37. “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

38. “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

39. “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

40. “The Lord will bless us as we attend to the sacred ordinance work of the temples. Blessings there will not be limited to our temple service. We will be blessed in all of our affairs.”

— Boyd K. Packer

41. “Our competition in life is solely with our old self.”

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42. “Faith is a real power, not just an expression of belief.”

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43. “Thoughts, like water, will stay on course if we make a place for them to go. As you learn to control your thoughts, you can gain courage, conquer fear and have a happy life.”

— Boyd K. Packer

44. “The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evil.”

— Boyd K. Packer

45. “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

46. “Somewhere 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. Packer

47. “Devotion to the family and devotion to the Church are not different and separate things.”

— Boyd K. Packer

48. “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

49. “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

50. “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