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.Collection: Hurt
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.Collection: Teaching
Tolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice.Collection: Tolerance
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.Collection: Should Have
The scriptures hold the keys to spiritual protection.Collection: Spiritual
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.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Inspiration
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.Collection: Inspirational
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.Collection: Uplifting
Often, very often, we are punished as much by our sins as we are for them.Collection: Sin
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.Collection: Doctrine
Some suffer from real misfortunes. Sadly, others only imagine that they do.Collection: Real
The flak is always the heaviest closest to the targetCollection: Ministry
The Spirit is a voice that one feels more than hears.Collection: Voice
A testimony is a testimony, and it should be respected, whether it is small or large.Collection: Should
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.Collection: Blessed
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.Collection: Life
Music can set an atmosphere of worship which invites [the] spirit of revelation, of testimony.Collection: Music
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!Collection: Home
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.Collection: Years
Devotion to the family and devotion to the Church are not different and separate things.Collection: Family
Dispute not because ye see not, for ye receive no witness until after the trial of your faith.Collection: Trials
Addiction has the capacity to disconnect the human will and nullify moral agency. It can rob one of the power to decide.Collection: Agency
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.Collection: Children
Freedom is not a self-preserving gift. It has to be earned, and it has to be protected.Collection: Self
I counsel our children to do their critical studying in the early hours of the morning when they're fresh and alert, rather than to fight physical weariness and mental exhaustion at night. I've learned the power of the dictum, "Early to bed, early to rise." When I'm under pressure, you won't find me burning the midnight oil. I'd much rather be in bed early and getting up in the wee hours of the morning.Collection: Morning
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.Collection: Challenges
Teenagers also sometimes think, 'What's the use? The world will soon be blown all apart and come to an end.' That feeling comes from fear, not from faith. No one knows the hour or the day (see D&C 49:7), but the end cannot come until all of the purposes of the Lord are fulfilled. Everything that I have learned from the revelations and from life convinces me that there is time and to spare for you to carefully prepare for a long life.Collection: Teenager
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.Collection: Father
When music is presented which, however appropriate for other occasions, does not fit the Sabbath, much is lost. . . . The Spirit does not ratify speech nor confirm music which lacks spiritual substance.Collection: Music
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.Collection: Littles
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.Collection: Spiritual
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.Collection: Mean
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.Collection: Keys
Get to Know Yourself Once you start getting acquainted with yourselves, finding out who you are and where you belong and who your relatives are, spiritually speaking as well as in the earthly frame of reference, you come to the astounding, overwhelming realization that you are a child of God-that you belong to Him, that He is your Father. He is our Father.Collection: Children
The guilt that accompanies mistakes can be washed away.Collection: Spiritual
Those who choose, conduct, present, and accompany the music may influence the spirit of reverence ... more than a speaker does.Collection: Doe
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.Collection: Doe
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.Collection: Children
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.Collection: Prayer
He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty" - Lao-tsu One who can control his thoughts has conquered himself.Collection: Strong
Most of what we acquire materially is found to not be worth what we must pay spiritually.Collection: Pay
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.Collection: Agency
Our competition in life is solely with our old self.Collection: Life
Take hold of your life and order yourself to be valiant.Collection: Order
An unusual thing happened after that great first vision. The Prophet Joseph received no additional communication for three years. However, he did not wonder, he did not question, he did not doubt the Lord. The Prophet Joseph patiently waited. The Prophet Joseph taught us the principle of patience-by example.Collection: Communication
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.Collection: Happy Life
Perhaps no other book has been denounced so vigorously by those who have never read it as has the Book of Mormon.Collection: Book
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."Collection: Men