Boyd K. Packer Quotes

I work with the dead, but I am working for the living.

Well, I mean, bread, I mean, I've got to have bread too to live.

I grew up in the Baptist church and, honey, they baptized me about 14 times. It never did take.

I'm helping the living by letting them know the spirits are here talking to us. And helping the dead by giving them a platform.

Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.

The dead are way more organized than the living.

How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it.

I look for ghosts; but none will force Their way to me. 'Tis falsely said That there was ever intercourse Between the living and the dead.

Is it possible for an unbaptized believer to be saved? Yes, definitely. Should every believer be baptized? Yes, definitely.

The living can assist the imagination of the dead.

That miracles have been, I do believe; that they may yet be wrought by the living, I do not deny: but have no confidence in those which are fathered on the dead.

I am not so foolish as to declaim against forms. Forms are as essential as bodies; but to exalt particular forms, to adhere to oneform a moment after it is outgrown, is unreasonable, and it is alien to the spirit of Christ.

You get one pass at life. That’s all. Only one. And the lasting measure of that life is Jesus Christ.

We can receive Jesus Christ when we believe in His message and trust in Him alone to save us.

Certainly the Old Testament does not teach us that there is another life, and upon that question even the New is obscure and vague. The hunger of the heart finds only a few small and scattered crumbs. There is nothing definite, solid, and satisfying. United with the idea of immortality we find the absurdity of the resurrection. A prophecy that depends for its fulfillment upon an impossibility, cannot satisfy the brain or heart.

Biographers, by their very nature, want to know everything about everybody, dead or alive.

As a Christian I have hope not just for this life but for Heaven and the life to come. And many of those people who died this past week are in Heaven right now. And they wouldn't want to come back; it's so glorious and so wonderful. And that's the hope for all of us who put our faith in God. I pray that you will have this hope in your heart.

The Guru and Disciple relationship is where the person has a 100% belief in the Guru and that way you put your trust in the Guru, that he's going to get you out of this mess. If you are a Christian, then Christ is your Guru, and they're all disciples of Christ.

The dead made this world. We didn't make it. They made the poetry and the songs and the customs.

Courage is essential to leadership.

None but the dead are permitted to tell the truth.

For Jesus, heaven and hell were present realities. Ways of living we can enter into here and now. He talked very little of the life beyond this one.

It is an unfortunate thing for the Christian to be melancholy. If there is any man in the world that has a right to have a bright, clear face and a flashing eye, it is the man whose sins are forgiven him, who is saved with God's salvation.

Let this be to you the mark of true gospel preaching - where Christ is everything, and the creature is nothing; where it is salvation all of grace, through the work of the Holy Spirit applying to the soul the precious blood of Jesus.

The essential thing to know about God is that God is Good. All the rest is secondary.