Cleansing the Inner Vessel

Elder Boyd K. Packer

October 2010 General Conference “Cleansing the Inner Vessel”

https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2010/10/cleansing-the-inner-vessel?lang=eng

In our day the dreadful influence of pornography is like unto a plague sweeping across the world, infecting one here and one there, relentlessly trying to invade every home, most frequently through the husband and father. The effect of this plague can be, unfortunately often is, spiritually fatal. Lucifer seeks to disrupt “the great plan of redemption,” “the great plan of happiness.”

Pornography will always repel the Spirit of Christ and will interrupt the communications between our Heavenly Father and His children and disrupt the tender relationship between husband and wife.

These Things I Know

Elder Boyd K. Packer 

April 2013 General Conference “These Things I Know”

https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2013/04/these-things-i-know?lang=eng

“Each of us must stay in condition to respond to inspiration and the promptings of the Holy Ghost. The Lord has a way of pouring pure intelligence into our minds to prompt us, to guide us, to teach us, and to warn us.”

In Wisdom and Order

Elder Boyd K. Packer 

In Wisdom and Order 

“You ought to know that the Lord loves you. He will make that known to you, and it will be a very private and individual experience, something you cannot explain to anyone else.”

The Mediator

Elder Boyd K. Packer 

April 1977 General Conference “The Mediator”

https://www.lds.org/general-conference/1977/04/the-mediator?lang=eng

“Truth, glorious truth, proclaims there is ... a Mediator. Through Him mercy can be fully extended to each of us without offending the eternal law of justice. This truth is the very root of Christian doctrine. You may know much about the gospel as it branches out from there, but if you only know the branches and those branches do not touch that root, if they have been cut free from that truth, there will be no life nor substance nor redemption in them.”

The Atonement

Elder Boyd K. Packer 

2012 October General Conference “The Atonement”

https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2012/10/the-atonement?lang=eng

“We do not know exactly how the Lord accomplished the Atonement. But we do know that the cruel torture of crucifixion was only part of the horrific pain which began in Gethsemane—that sacred site of suffering—and was completed on Golgotha.”

Things I Know

Elder Boyd K. Packer 

2013 April General Conference “These Things I Know”

https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2013/04/these-things-i-know?lang=eng&

“We are free to choose what we will and to pick and choose our acts, but we are not free to choose the consequences. They come as they will come.”

Balm of Gilead

“Forgiveness is powerful spiritual medicine. To extend forgiveness, that soothing balm, to those who have offended you is to heal. And, more difficult yet, when the need is there forgive yourself!”

Elder Boyd K. Packer

1987 October General Conference “Balm of Gilead”

https://www.lds.org/general-conference/1987/10/balm-of-gilead?lang=eng

For Time and All Eternity

“A man who holds the priesthood does not have an advantage over a woman in qualifying for exaltation. The woman, by her very nature, is also co-creator with God and the primary nurturer of the children. Virtues and attributes upon which perfection and exaltation depend come naturally to a woman and are refined through marriage and motherhood.”

“First Presidency said: “Motherhood thus becomes a holy calling, a sacred dedication for carrying out the Lord’s plans, a consecration of devotion to the uprearing and fostering, the nurturing in body, mind, and spirit, of those who kept their first estate and who come to this earth for their second estate ‘to see if they will do all things whatsoever the Lord their God shall command them.’ (Abr. 3:25) To lead them to keep their second estate is the work of motherhood, and ‘they who keep their second estate shall have glory added upon their heads for ever and ever.’ (op. cit.) [Abr. 3:26]”

-Elder Boyd K. Packer

October 1993 “For Time and All Eternity”

https://www.lds.org/general-conference/1993/10/for-time-and-all-eternity?lang=eng