Quotes from Boyd K. Packer

Take hold of your life and order yourself to be valiant.

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

If you need a transfusion of spiritual strength then just ask for it. We call that Prayer. Prayer is powerful spiritual medicine.

If [we] have a good, miserable day once in a while, or several in a row, stand steady and face them. Things will straighten out. There is great purpose in our struggle in life.

Our competition in life is solely with our old self.

Life moves all too fast. When you feel weak, discouraged, depressed, or afraid, open the Book of Mormon and read.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Family time is sacred time and should be protected and respected.

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!

Faith is the power, obedience the sacrifice, love the means, Christ the reason.

We live in a day when the adversary stresses on every hand the philosophy of instant gratification. We seem to demand instant everything, including instant solutions to our problems. . .It was meant to be that life would be a challenge. To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal.

He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty" - Lao-tsu One who can control his thoughts has conquered himself.

Things we cannot solve, we must survive.

The study of doctrine and the teaching of doctrine will change behavior more than the study of behavior will change behavior.

Happiness is inseparably connected with decent, clean behavior.

Learn to pray. Pray often. Pray in your mind, in your heart. Pray on your knees. Prayer is your personal key to heaven. The lock is on your side of the veil. And I have learned to conclude all my prayers with 'Thy will be done' (Matthew 6:10; see also Luke 11:2; 3 Nephi 13:10).

The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evil.

Keep the fire of your testimony of the restored gospel and your witness of our Redeemer burning so brightly that our children can warm their hands by the fire of your faith.

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

Reverence invites Revelation