Browsing Quotes By Elder Boyd K. Packer
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Ordinances and covenants become our credentials for admission into His presence. To worthily receive them is the quest of a lifetime; to keep them thereafter is the challenge of mortality.
Speaker: Elder Boyd K. PackerSource: Covenants, Ensign, May 1987Posted: 24 Oct 2014 at 7:44 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Sometimes you may struggle with a problem and not get an answer. What could be wrong? It may be that you are not doing anything wrong. It may be that you have not done the right things long enough. Remember, you cannot force spiritual things. Sometimes we are confused simply because we won’t take no for an answer. …
“Put difficult questions in the back of your minds and go about your lives. Ponder and pray quietly and persistently about them.
“The answer may not come as a lightning bolt. It may come as a little inspiration here and a little there, ‘line upon line, precept upon precept’ (D&C 98:12).
“Some answers will come from reading the scriptures, some from hearing speakers. And, occasionally, when it is important, some will come by very direct and powerful inspiration. The promptings will be clear and unmistakable”.
Speaker: Elder Boyd K. PackerSource: Conference Report, Oct. 1979, 29–30; or Ensign, Nov. 1979, 21Posted: 13 Feb 2013 at 8:49 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There are spiritual disorders, too, and spiritual diseases that can cause intense suffering. The body and the spirit of man are bound together. Often, very often, when there are disorders, it is very difficult to tell which is which.
Speaker: Elder Boyd K. PackerSource: Conference Report, Oct. 1977, p. 89Posted: 03 Sep 2012 at 11:32 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!