quotes by Boyd K. Packer

"Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without."
— Boyd K. Packer

"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."
— Boyd K. Packer

"Things we cannot solve, we must survive."
— Boyd K. Packer

"The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evil."
— Boyd K. Packer

"Don't live so that your children go unled because of habits that leave you uninspired."
— Boyd K. Packer

"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

""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.""
— Boyd K. Packer

"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

"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

""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."
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— Boyd K. Packer

"No one of us can survive in the world of today, much less what it will become, without personal inspiration. "
— Boyd K. Packer

"The flow of revelation depends on your faith.
As you test gospel principles by believing
without knowing, the Spirit will begin to teach
you. Gradually your faith will be replaced with knowledge."
— Boyd K. Packer

"Happiness is inseparably connected with decent, clean behavior. "
— Boyd K. Packer

""Reverence invites Revelation""
— Boyd K. Packer

"Our whole social order could self-destruct over the obsession with freedom disconnected from responsibility; where choice is imagined to be somehow independent of consequences."
— Boyd K. Packer

""Those who choose, conduct, present, and accompany the music may influence the spirit of reverence ... more than a speaker does.""
— Boyd K. Packer

"In many places it is literally not safe physically for youngsters to go to school. And in many schools, and its becoming almost generally true, it is spiritually unsafe to attend public schools. Look back over the history of education to the turn of the century and the beginning of the educational philosophies, pragmatism and humanism were the early ones, and they branched out into a number of other philosophies which have led us now into a circumstance where our schools are producing the problems that we face."
— Boyd K. Packer

"In many places it is literally not safe physically for youngsters to go to school. And in many schools‹and its becoming almost generally true‹it is spiritually unsafe to attend public schools. Look back over the history of education to the turn of the century and the beginning of the educational philosophies‹pragmatism and humanism were the early ones, and they branched out into a number of other philosophies which have led us now into a circumstance where our schools are producing the problems that we face."
— Boyd K. Packer