Boyd K. Packer Quotes About Obedience

Quotes about: Obedience

• Latter-day Saints are not obedient because they are compelled to be obedient. They are obedient because they know certain spiritual truths and have decided, as an expression of their own individual agency, to obey the commandments of God. . . . We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see

  Boyd K. Packer

  Spiritual, Expression, Agency

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

• Faith is the power, obedience the sacrifice, love the means, Christ the reason.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Mean, Sacrifice, Christ

• We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Blind, Obedience, Blind Obedience

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

• You always hold the key of repentance to unlock the prison door. If they throw the word diversity at you, grab hold of it and say, "I am already diverse, and I intend to stay diverse." If the word is tolerance, grab that one, too, saying, "I expect you to be tolerant of my lifestyle-obedience, integrity, abstinence, repentance." If the word is choice, tell them you choose good, old-fashioned morality.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Integrity, Doors, Keys

• Obedience is a powerful spiritual medicine. It comes close to being a cure-all.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Spiritual, Powerful, Medicine

  Boyd K. Packer (1982). “That All May be Edified: Talks, Sermons & Commentary”, Bookcraft Pubs

• Those who speak of blind obedience may appear to know many things, but they do not understand the doctrines of the gospel. There is an obedience that comes from a knowledge of the truth that transcends any external form of control. We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Doctrine, May, Speak

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

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