Top 120 Boyd K. Packer Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “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

52. “The scriptures hold the keys to spiritual protection.”

— Boyd K. Packer

53. “Happiness is inseparably connected with decent, clean behavior.”

— Boyd K. Packer

54. “Hit the ‘delete’ button when you have unrighteous thoughts.”

— Boyd K. Packer

55. “Nowhere are the generosity and the kindness and mercy of God more manifest than in repentance.”

— Boyd K. Packer

56. “The Spirit is a voice that one feels more than hears.”

— Boyd K. Packer

57. “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

58. “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

59. “How grateful we are for you, our youth.”

— Boyd K. Packer

60. “The answer is the same for everyone: we must, and we can, resist temptations of any kind.”

— Boyd K. Packer

61. “Obedience is a powerful spiritual medicine. It comes close to being a cure-all.”

— Boyd K. Packer

62. “Mature love has a bliss not even imagined by newlyweds.”

— Boyd K. Packer

63. “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

64. “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

65. “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.”

— Boyd K. Packer

66. “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

67. “Some things that are true are not very useful.”

— Boyd K. Packer

68. “Happily ever after never happens in the second act.”

— Boyd K. Packer

69. “Your responsibility as a father and a husband transcends any other interest in life.”

— Boyd K. Packer

70. “God bless you young women and young men who struggle through the worrisome teenage years. Some of you may not yet have found yourselves, but you are not lost, for Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, our Savior and Redeemer.”

— Boyd K. Packer

71. “I hope to be judged as good a man as my father. Before I hear those words “well done” from my Heavenly Father, I hope to first hear them from my mortal father.”

— Boyd K. Packer

72. “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

73. “Arms now empty will be filled and hearts now hurting from broken dreams and yearning will be healed.”

— Boyd K. Packer

74. “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

75. “To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal.”

— Boyd K. Packer

76. “A testimony is a testimony, and it should be respected, whether it is small or large.”

— Boyd K. Packer

77. “The power of procreation is not an incidental part of the plan; it is the plan of happiness.”

— Boyd K. Packer

78. “Christ’s mercy is the mighty healer; even to the wounded innocent.”

— Boyd K. Packer

79. “Without a knowledge of the gospel plan, transgression seems natural, innocent, even justified.”

— Boyd K. Packer

80. “Freedom is not a self-preserving gift. It has to be earned, and it has to be protected.”

— Boyd K. Packer

81. “Often, very often, we are punished as much by our sins as we are for them.”

— Boyd K. Packer

82. “Moral standards cannot be changed by battle and cannot be changed by ballot.”

— Boyd K. Packer

83. “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

84. “Addiction has the capacity to disconnect the human will and nullify moral agency. It can rob one of the power to decide.”

— Boyd K. Packer

85. “If our view is limited to mortal life, some things become unbearable because they seem so unfair and so permanent.”

— Boyd K. Packer

86. “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

87. “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

88. “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.”

— Boyd K. Packer

89. “Go forward without fear. Do not fear the future. Do not fear whatever is ahead of you. Take hold of that supernal gift of the Holy Ghost. Learn to be taught by it. Learn to call upon it. Learn to live by it. And the Spirit of the Lord will attend you, and you will be blessed as it was intended that we should all be blessed by this gift.”

— Boyd K. Packer

90. “The purest, most beautiful and appealing experiences of life: romance, love, marriage, and parenthood.”

— Boyd K. Packer

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

— Boyd K. Packer

92. “Inherent in the ordination to be bishop is both the right and the obligation to be directed by inspiration.”

— Boyd K. Packer

93. “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

94. “Peace can be settled in the heart of each who turns to the scriptures and unlocks the promises of protection and redemption that are taught therein.”

— Boyd K. Packer

95. “No one of us can survive in the world of today, much less what it will become, without personal inspiration.”

— Boyd K. Packer

96. “The atonement of Christ is not just for those who sin. The mercy of Christ encompasses all pain.”

— Boyd K. Packer

97. “You must know that baptism for someone who is dead is quite as essential as baptism for some one who is living.”

— Boyd K. Packer

98. “No teaching is equal, more spiritually rewarding, or more exalting than that of a mother teaching her children.”

— Boyd K. Packer

99. “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

100. “However common irreverence and profanity become, they are nonetheless wrong.”

— Boyd K. Packer