It has to be an awfully good meeting to beat having no meeting at all. Boyd K. Packer More Quotes by Boyd K. Packer More Quotes From 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 has-beens book 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 agency keys hands 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 hard-times uplifting hurt 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 salvation goes-on world 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 baptism essentials knows Your secret yearnings and tearful pleadings will touch the heart of both the Father and the Son. Boyd K. Packer spiritual inspirational father 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 spiritual inspirational moving 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 addiction influence evil A testimony is a testimony, and it should be respected, whether it is small or large. Boyd K. Packer testimony should The first gift that Adam and Eve received was agency: ‘Thou mayest choose for thyself, for it is given unto thee’ (Moses 3:17). You have that same agency. Use it wisely to deny acting on any impure impulse or unholy temptation that may come into your mind. Just do not go there, and if you are already there, come back out of it. ‘Deny yourselves of all ungodliness’ (Moroni 10:32). Boyd K. Packer agency temptation mind The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evil. Boyd K. Packer accountability choices evil The Spirit is a voice that one feels more than hears. Boyd K. Packer voice spirit feels 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 speak men past 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 everyday choices years Dispute not because ye see not, for ye receive no witness until after the trial of your faith. Boyd K. Packer disputes witness trials Behold, he who has repented of his sins, the same is forgiven, and I, the Lord, remember them no more. Boyd K. Packer sin lord remember Justice can seem to be so very demanding. But we must learn that when we put everything as right as we can put it right, it is Justice who invokes the Atonement, orders the adversary off our property, and posts the notice that his agents will make no more collections from us. Our debt will have been paid in full by the only perfect pure person who ever lived. Boyd K. Packer learning life order 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 music teaching play I'm not ashamed to say that I want to be good. And I've found in my life that it has been critically important to establish this intention between me and the Lord so that I knew that HE knew which way I committed my agency. I went before Him and said, 'I'm not neutral, and you can do with me what you want. If you need my vote-it's there. I don't care what you do with me and you don't have to take anything from me because I give it to you-everything. All I own. All I am.' And THAT has made all the difference. Boyd K. Packer agency differences giving 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 laos conquer strong
