Boyd K. Packer -The Spirit of Revelation
- Both prayer and music can be very silent and very personal.
- I love the sacred music of the Church. The hymns of the Restoration carry an inspiration and a protection.
- I know also some music is spiritually destructive; it's bad and dangerous! Young people, leave it alone!
- "Remember, the flak is always the heaviest closer to the target."
- Thoughts are talks we hold with ourselves.
- The voice of the Spirit is felt rather than heard.
- The scriptures are full of help on how good can influence your mind and evil control you, if you let it. That struggle will never end. But remember this: All the water in the world, However hard it tried, Could never sink the smallest ship Unless it [gets] inside. And all the evil in the world, The blackest kind of sin, Can never hurt you the least bit Unless you let it in.
- When you learn to control your thoughts, you will be safe.
- Young Latter-day Saints, shape up! Face up! Take hold of your lives! Take control of your mind, your thoughts! If you have friends that are not a good influence, make changes, even if you face loneliness, even rejection.
- How foolish to remain in prison when the door stands open.
- Take charge of yourself.
- Louisa May Alcott was only 14 when she wrote: A little kingdom I possess, Where thoughts and feelings dwell, And very hard I find the task Of governing it well; ... I do not ask for nay crown But that which all may win, Nor seek to conquer any world Except the one within.
- You can do it--you must do it. Our future depends on you.
- I can give you this encouragement: A teacher, trying to explain what a theory is, asked this question: "If you take a letter half the distance to the mailbox and stop, then start over going half that remaining distance and stop, then repeat the process over and over, theoretically will you ever really get to the mailbox?" One bright student said, "No, but you'll get close enough to mail the letter."
- The Lord promised, "I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you."
- With Him there are no barriers of race or gender or language. As Nephi explained, "He denieth none that come unto him, black and white, bond and free, male and female; and he remembereth the heathen; and all are alike unto God."
- It is not the amount we give that matters. In the arithmetic of heaven, value is determined not by quantity but by quality. It is the intent of the willing heart and mind that is acceptable to God.
- Voice cannot tell nor tongue proclaim the fullness of Christ's ineffable example.
- Fearing the Lord means to be reverent and to love Him and to keep His commandments.
- Putting away worldly gods means keeping impure thoughts out of our minds, shedding all hateful feelings from our hearts, and ridding our lives of everything which may prevent the Holy Ghost from being always with us.
- In each one of us there is the power to change our life, the power to transform the bad feelings we have in our hearts.
- When we love God, serve the Lord sincerely, and give up the things of this world, we become true followers of Christ.
- "Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:
"And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
"And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:
"And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it." - Serving Christ is not in itself a way to escape the hard reality of life.
- The rain, the floods, and the winds beat not only upon the house which had been built upon the sand, but also upon the other, which had been built upon the rock.
- Both the person who serves the Lord as well as the one who disdains Him live in a world ruled by the same laws of nature.
- The gospel of Jesus Christ does not promise that we will be free from tribulation. But it does strengthen our spirit so that we can accept adversity and face it when it comes.
- A person who can live this way, without fear or hate but with love, is a happy person.
- Are we building upon the rock which is the gospel of Jesus Christ, or are we building upon the sand which lies in the falsehoods of this world?
- Each moment we must choose whom we will serve, for we have been placed upon this earth to be proven and tested.
- We cannot choose to serve God and the world at the same time.
- Whether we descend from generations in the Church or are the first link in the generational chain, we have a responsibility to convey to our posterity a heritage of faith, manifest through our daily actions. Those who are newly converted members have a particularly great opportunity to become the pioneers for their ancestors and for their posterity.
- I must confess that whenever my life has failed to measure up to the standards of my forebears, it is because I have allowed worldly priorities to take precedence over my spiritual ones. But I have learned that it is possible to redirect our goals and to put our sights on eternal values.
- Do not become a weak link in the chain of your generations.
- You come of great men and women. ... Never let them down. Never do anything which would weaken the chain of which you are a fundamental part.
- There is even more desolation caused in people's lives by spiritual hurricanes. These furious forces often cause far more devastating damage than physical cyclones, because they destroy our souls and rob us of our eternal perspective and promise. When the physical storm has passed, we can begin to put our lives and houses back in order. But some spiritual hurricanes sweep us into chaos, and we are encompassed and imprisoned by the shackles of powerful and ruinous influences whose consequences we can only dimly perceive at the time. Like those swirling cyclones, spiritual hurricanes can be virtually unnoticed until they are almost upon us, but they also can strike with intense and insensate fury.
- It is often more difficult to restore a spiritually shattered soul than it is to rebuild a ruined city.
- If we will but listen to those whose calling it is to watch and warn, if we will give heed to the words of the Master Himself, then our spiritual house will stand firm, and we can let the rain descend and the floods come and the winds blow and beat upon our house, because we are founded upon that rock.
- Not all of us fall into that trap of inaction. But enough people do that we each have at least one person we love and often more--a child, a parent, a friend--someone for whom we feel responsibility, for whom we ache with concern.
- Satan tempts with procrastination throughout our days of probation. Any choice to delay repentance gives him the chance to steal happiness from one of the spirit children of our Heavenly Father.
- "One of the most serious human defects in all ages is procrastination," and then he defined it: "an unwillingness to accept personal responsibility now"
- We all need repentance.
- We are not the helpless victims of our circumstances.
- The world might be willing to excuse our bad behavior because those around us behave badly. It is not true that the behavior of others removes our responsibility for our own. God's standards for our behavior are unchanged whether or not others choose to rise to them.
- Today is always a better day to repent than any tomorrow.
- Should we be forgiven at some later time, the Lord cannot restore the good effects our repentance today might have had on those we love and are to serve.
- Every one of us has times when we need to know things will get better.
- For emotional health and spiritual stamina, everyone needs to be able to look forward to some respite, to something pleasant and renewing and hopeful, whether that blessing be near at hand or still some distance ahead. It is enough just to know we can get there, that however measured or far away, there is the promise of "good things to come."
- My declaration is that this is precisely what the gospel of Jesus Christ offers us, especially in times of need. There is help. There is happiness. There really is light at the end of the tunnel.
- Hold on. Keep trying. God loves you.
- "Against [all] hope believe in hope."
- Even if you cannot always see that silver lining on your clouds, God can, for He is the very source of the light you seek. He does love you, and He knows your fears. He hears your prayers. He is your Heavenly Father, and surely He matches with His own the tears His children shed.
- For the faithful, things will be made right soon enough.
- The needy shall not always[s] be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.
I'll be watching the leaves.
Enjoy the day!
-Sarnic Dirchi
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