Quote

We were given our agency. We must use it wisely and remain close to the Spirit otherwise, we foolishly find ourselves yielding to the enticements of the adversary.

Boyd K. Packer

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Boyd K. Packer
Close
Foolishly
Use
Yielding
Given
Adversary
Spirit
Wisely
Find
Adversaries
Must
Agency
Otherwise
Remain
Enticement

More quotes by Boyd K. Packer

Image
There is a temptation for the writer or the teacher of Church history to want to tell everything, whether it is worthy or faith promoting or not. Some things that are true are not very useful.
Boyd K. Packer
Image
Nowhere are the generosity and the kindness and mercy of God more manifest than in repentance.
Boyd K. Packer
Image
An unusual thing happened after that great first vision. The Prophet Joseph received no additional communication for three years. However, he did not wonder, he did not question, he did not doubt the Lord. The Prophet Joseph patiently waited. The Prophet Joseph taught us the principle of patience-by example.
Boyd K. Packer
Image
There's no credit buying on eternal things, none at all. Anything that is worthwhile has to be paid for in advance.
Boyd K. Packer
Image
There are few things more powerful than the faithful prayers of a righteous mother.
Boyd K. Packer
Image
Mature love has a bliss not even imagined by newlyweds.
Boyd K. Packer
Image
No teaching is equal, more spiritually rewarding, or more exalting than that of a mother teaching her children.
Boyd K. Packer
Image
However common irreverence and profanity become, they are nonetheless wrong
Boyd K. Packer
Image
Faith is the power, obedience the sacrifice, love the means, Christ the reason.
Boyd K. Packer
Image
Perhaps no other book has been denounced so vigorously by those who have never read it as has the Book of Mormon.
Boyd K. Packer
Image
Dispute not because ye see not, for ye receive no witness until after the trial of your faith.
Boyd K. Packer
Image
Do you realize how marvelous it is that you can call upon the Atonement? The Lord effected the Atonement for our sakes. And there isn’t anything that you can’t repent from and that you can’t be rescued from if you will repent and be determined to make the decision.
Boyd K. Packer
Image
The end of all activity in the church is to see that a man and a woman with their children are happy at home, sealed for eternity.
Boyd K. Packer
Image
At the temple the dust of distraction seems to settle out, the fog and the haze seem to lift, and we can 'see' things that we were not able to see before and find a way through our troubles that we had not previously known.
Boyd K. Packer
Image
Devotion to the family and devotion to the Church are not different and separate things.
Boyd K. Packer
Image
When music is presented which, however appropriate for other occasions, does not fit the Sabbath, much is lost. . . . The Spirit does not ratify speech nor confirm music which lacks spiritual substance.
Boyd K. Packer
Image
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.
Boyd K. Packer
Image
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.
Boyd K. Packer
Image
We are able to feel and learn very quickly through music, through art, through poetry some spiritual things that we would otherwise learn very slowly.
Boyd K. Packer
Image
There is also an age-old excuse: “The devil made me do it.” Not so! He can deceive you and mislead you, but he does not have the power to force you or anyone else to transgress or to keep you in transgression.
Boyd K. Packer