142 Quotes by Boyd K. Packer

There’s no credit buying on eternal things, none at all. Anything that is worthwhile has to be paid for in advance.

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

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.

The Spirit is a voice that one feels more than hears.

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.

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.

The flak is always the heaviest closest to the target.

Perhaps no other book has been denounced so vigorously by those who have never read it as has the Book of Mormon.

This great circle of sisters will be a protection for each of you and for your families. The Relief Society might be likened to a refuge- the place of safety and protection- the sanctuary of ancient times. You will be safe within it. It encircles each sister like a protecting wall.