Boyd K. Packer Quotes About Church

Quotes about: Church

• I have a hard time with historians because they idolize the truth. The truth is not uplifting; it destroys. I could tell most of the secretaries in the church office building that they are ugly and fat. That would be the truth, but it would hurt and destroy them. Historians should tell only that part of the truth that is inspiring and uplifting.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Uplifting, Hurt, Hard Times

  "Faithful History: Essays on Writing Mormon History". Book edited by George D. Smith, April 1992.

• The ultimate end of all activity in the Church is to see a husband and his wife and their children happy at home, protected by the principles and laws of the gospel, sealed safely in the covenants of the everlasting priesthood. Husbands and wives should understand that their first calling-from which they will never be released-is to one another and then to their children.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Children, Husband, Home

• Seek worthy companions. Attend church faithfully. Never fail daily to seek for help through prayer. And I promise you that the way will be easier and you shall have a composure of mind and a confident attitude toward life and the future. You shall be warned of dangers and shall be guided through the whisperings of the Holy Spirit.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Life, Prayer, Attitude

  Boyd K. Packer (1998). “The shield of faith”, Bookcraft, Incorporated

• Devotion to the family and devotion to the Church are not different and separate things.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Family, Church, Different

• 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

  Teacher, Scary, Temptation

  "The Mantle Is Far, Far Greater Than the Intellect" by Boyd K. Packer, www.lds.org. 2004.

• One thing is very clear: the safest place and the best protection against the moral and spiritual diseases is a stable home and family. This has always been true; it will be true forever. We must keep that foremost in our minds. The scriptures speak of 'the shield of faith wherewith,' the Lord said, 'ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked' (D&C 27:17). This shield of faith is best fabricated in a cottage industry. While the shield can be polished in classes in the Church and in activities, it is meant to be handcrafted in the home and fitted to each individual.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Spiritual, Home, Class

• In all that we do in the Church, we need to provide the way, as leaders, for parents and children to have time together as families.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Children, Leader, Parent

• Joseph's vision of the Father and the Son opened this dispensation. Then came the Restoration of the fulness of the gospel of Jesus Christ with the same organization that existed in the primitive Church, built upon the foundation of apostles and prophets.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Jesus, Father, Son

  Boyd K. Packer (1998). “The shield of faith”, Bookcraft, Incorporated

• The ultimate effort of everything in the Church is to the end that a father and a mother and their children can be happy at home. If they are happy at home, they are spiritually prepared for whatever should be ahead of them in the world.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Mother, Children, Father

• I bear witness of the power of the priesthood given to the Church to protect us and guide us. And because we have that, we have no fear of the future. Fear is the opposite of faith. We move forward, certain that the Lord will watch over us, particularly in the family.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Moving, Opposites, Church

• No service in the Church or in the community transcends that given in the home.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Home, Community, Church

• The ultimate purpose of every teaching, every activity in the Church is that parents and their children are happy at home, sealed in an eternal marriage, and linked to their generations.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Children, Teaching, Home

  Boyd K. Packer (1998). “The shield of faith”, Bookcraft, Incorporated

• 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

  Children, Home, Men

• That historian or scholar who delights in pointing out the weaknesses and frailties of present or past leaders destroys faith. A destroyer of faith — particularly one within the Church, and more particularly one who is employed specifically to build faith — places himself in great spiritual jeopardy. He is serving the wrong master, and unless he repents, he will not be among the faithful in the eternities. Do not spread disease germs!

  Boyd K. Packer

  Spiritual, Past, Leader

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