Browsing Quotes By Boyd K. Packer
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I want you… to know the truth: You need not be either rich or hold high position to be completely successful and truly happy….We come into mortal life to receive a body and to be tested, to learn to choose…The choice of life is not between fame and obscurity, nor is the choice between wealth and poverty. The choice is between good and evil, and that is a very different matter indeed.
Speaker: Boyd K. PackerSource: I Need Thee Every Hour by VandagriffPosted: 17 Jan 2012 at 2:40 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Remember when making a breakfast of bacon and eggs: the chicken was involved, but the pig gave his all.
Speaker: Boyd K. PackerPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:44 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There is so much difference between teaching the missionaries what they are to do as concentrating on what they are to be. The first will make a salesman of them. The second will create a saint.
Speaker: Boyd K. PackerPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:54 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We do not have to defend the prophet Joseph Smith. The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ will defend him for us. Those who reject Joseph Smith as a prophet and revelator are left to find some other explanation for the Book of Mormon.
Speaker: Boyd K. PackerPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 11:27 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I do not like to receive honors. Compliments always bother me because the great work of moving the Gospel forward has in the past, does now, and will in the future depend upon ordinary members.
Speaker: Boyd K. PackerPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 11:22 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
True doctrine, understood, changes attitudes and behavior. The study of the doctrines of the Gospel will improve behavior quicker than a study of behavior will improve behavior.
Speaker: Boyd K. PackerPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:40 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!