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“The study of doctrine and the teaching of doctrine will change behavior more than the study of behavior will change behavior.”
― Boyd K. Packer

“Happiness is inseparably connected with decent, clean behavior. ”
― Boyd K. Packer

“Things we cannot solve, we must survive.”
― Boyd K. Packer

“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

“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

“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).”
― 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

“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

“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

“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.”
― Boyd K. Packer

“Some are filled with a compelling urge, a temptation that recycles in the mind, perhaps to become a habit, then an addiction. We are prone to some transgression and sin and also a rationalization that we have no guilt because we were born that way. We become trapped, and hence comes the pain and torment that only the Savior can heal. You have the power to stop and to be redeemed.”
― Boyd K. Packer

“Our children were allowed to help when they were little, urged to help when they grew a little older, and sometimes ordered to help when they were teenagers.”
― Boyd K. Packer

“The Spirit is a voice that one feels more than hears.”
― Boyd K. Packer

“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.”
― Boyd K. Packer

“Probably the greatest challenge and the most difficult thing you will face in mortal life is to learn to control your thoughts. In the Bible it says, as a man "thinketh in his heart, so is he." Those who can control their thoughts have conquered themselves.”
― Boyd K Packer

“Fear is the opposite of faith”
― Boyd K. Packer

“One of the adversary’s sharpest tools is to convince us that we are no longer worthy to pray. No matter who you are or what you may have done, you can always pray.”
― Boyd K. Packer

“It is not likely that you will ever have a personal encounter with the adversary; he does not show himself that way. But even if he came personally to you to test and tempt you, you have an advantage. You can assert your agency, and he will have to leave you alone.”
― Boyd K. Packer

“I often ask the Lord for direction from Him. I will not, however, willingly accept promptings from any unworthy source. I refuse them. I do not want them, and I say so.”
― Boyd K. Packer

“Tolerance is a virtue, but like all virtues, when exaggerated, it transforms itself into a vice. We need to be careful of the “tolerance trap” so that we are not swallowed up in it. The permissiveness afforded by the weakening of the laws of the land to tolerate legalized acts of immorality does not reduce the serious spiritual consequence that is the result of the violation of God’s law of chastity.”
― Boyd K. Packer

“With thoughtless and impatient hands We tangle up the plans The Lord hath wrought. And when we cry in pain He saith, “Be quiet, man, while I untie the knot.” (Author unknown, in Jack M. Lyon et al., Best-Loved Poems of the LDS People [1996], 304)”
― Boyd K. Packer, Truths Most Worth Knowing

“Many of the little intrusions into our lives, the little difficulties and the petty problems that beset us, are put into proper perspective when we view the linking of the generations for the eternities. We become much more patient then. So if you want the influence of dignity and wisdom and inspiration and spirituality to envelop your life, involve yourself in temple and genealogical work.”
― Boyd K. Packer, The Holy Temple

“All are born with the Light of Christ, a guiding influence which permits each person to recognize right from wrong. What we do with that light and how we respond to those promptings to live righteously is part of the test of mortality.”
― Boyd K. Packer

“I have come to know that faith is a real power, not just an expression of belief.”
― Boyd K. Packer

“You have your agency, and inspiration does not—perhaps cannot—flow unless you ask for it, or someone asks for you. No message in scripture is repeated more often than the invitation, even the command, to pray—to ask.”
― Boyd K. Packer