Quotes from Boyd K. Packer

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."

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Happiness is inseparably connected with decent, clean behavior.

If you understand the great plan of happiness and follow it, what goes on in the world will not determine your happiness.

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

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.

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

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.

The Atonement has practical, personal, everyday value; apply it in your life. It can be activated with so simple a beginning as prayer.

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

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.

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

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.

Prayer is your personal key to heaven.

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

The guilt that accompanies mistakes can be washed away.

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

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

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.

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