Top 120 Boyd K. Packer Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “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

102. “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

103. “Perhaps the single greatest thing I learned from reading the Book of Mormon is that the voice of the Spirit comes as a feeling rather than a sound. You will learn, as I have learned, to “listen” for that voice that is felt rather than heard.”

— Boyd K. Packer

104. “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

105. “Despite the opposition, trials, and temptations, you need not fail or fear.”

— Boyd K. Packer

106. “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

107. “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

108. “In the eternal scheme of things – not always in mortality – righteous yearning and longing will be fulfilled.”

— Boyd K. Packer

109. “Your secret yearnings and tearful pleadings will touch the heart of both the Father and the Son.”

— Boyd K. Packer

110. “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

111. “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

112. “You have your agency, and inspiration does not – perhaps cannot – flow unless you ask for it, or someone asks for you. No message in scripture is repeated more often than the invitation, even the command, to pray – to ask.”

— Boyd K. Packer

113. “The guilt that accompanies mistakes can be washed away.”

— Boyd K. Packer

114. “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

115. “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

116. “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. If you will turn away from sin, you will be able one day to know the peace that comes from following the pathway of complete repentance.”

— Boyd K. Packer

117. “Our purpose is to produce students who have that rare and precious combination of a superb secular education, complemented by faith in the Lord, a knowledge of the doctrines He has revealed, and a testimony that they are true.”

— Boyd K. Packer

118. “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

119. “Some are filled with a compelling urge, a temptation that recycles in the mind, perhaps to become a habit, then an addiction. We are prone to some transgression and sin and also a rationalization that we have no guilt because we were born that way. We become trapped, and hence comes the pain and torment that only the Savior can heal. You have the power to stop and to be redeemed.”

— Boyd K. Packer

120. “Christ will step in and solve the problem you cannot solve, but you have to pay the price. It does not come without doing that. He is a very kind ruler in the sense that He will always pay the price necessary, but He wants you to do what you should, even if it is painful.”

— Boyd K. Packer

121. “We are not free to break our covenants and escape the consequences.”

— Boyd K. Packer

122. “Parents now are concerned about the moral and spiritual diseases. These can have terrible complications when standards and values are abandoned. We must all take protective measures.”

— Boyd K. Packer

123. “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

124. “The idea that life began with mortal birth is preposterous. There is no way to explain life if you believe that.”

— Boyd K. Packer

125. “If prayer is to leave the public schools, let the ridicule of prayer leave also.”

— Boyd K. Packer

126. “There are spiritual and physical laws to obey if we are to be happy.”

— Boyd K. Packer

127. “Do you realize how marvelous it is that you can call upon the Atonement? The Lord effected the Atonement for our sakes. And there isn’t anything that you can’t repent from and that you can’t be rescued from if you will repent and be determined to make the decision.”

— Boyd K. Packer

128. “Our meetinghouses are designed so that we may enjoy socials, dancing, drama, even sports. All of these are important. But these auxiliary activities should be subdued when compared with what the world is doing.”

— Boyd K. Packer

129. “No service in the Church or in the community transcends that given in the home.”

— Boyd K. Packer

130. “Don’t live so that your children go unled because of habits that leave you uninspired.”

— Boyd K. Packer

131. “Some suffer from real misfortunes. Sadly, others only imagine that they do.”

— Boyd K. Packer

132. “Happiness will depend on what each of us does with what each has, what we learn from what we do, and what we do thereafter.”

— Boyd K. Packer

133. “Most of what we acquire materially is found to not be worth what we must pay spiritually.”

— Boyd K. Packer