Great Quotes from President Packer's Talk

Here are some great quotes from President Packer's talk, The Power of the Priesthood given on April 3, 2010.

"Today, we are encamped against the greatest array of sin, vice, and evil ever assembled before our eyes. . . . The battle plan whereby we fight to save the souls of men is not our own. It [came through] the inspiration and revelation of the Lord." - President Thomas S. Monson - “Correlation Brings Blessings,” Relief Society Magazine, Apr. 1967, 247, quoted in -- President Boyd K. Packer "The Power of the Priesthood", http://www.lds.org/conference/talk/display/0,5232,23-1-1207-2,00.html, April 2010.

"We can and in due time certainly will influence all of humanity. It will be known who we are and why we are. It might seem hopeless; it is monumentally difficult; but it is not only possible but certain that we will win the battle against Satan." -- President Boyd K. Packer "The Power of the Priesthood", http://www.lds.org/conference/talk/display/0,5232,23-1-1207-2,00.html, April 2010.

“It seems clear to me that the Church has no choice—and never has had—but to do more to assist the family in carrying out its divine mission, not only because that is the order of heaven, but also because that is the most practical contribution we can make to our youth—to help improve the quality of life in the Latter-day Saint homes. As important as our many programs and organizational efforts are, these should not supplant the home; they should support the home.” - President Harold B. Lee, “Preparing Our Youth,” Ensign, Mar. 1971, 3; emphasis added, quoted in -- President Boyd K. Packer "The Power of the Priesthood", http://www.lds.org/conference/talk/display/0,5232,23-1-1207-2,00.html, April 2010.

“In the home the presiding authority is always vested in the father, and in all home affairs and family matters there is no other authority paramount. To illustrate this principle, a single incident will perhaps suffice. It sometimes happens that the elders are called in to administer to the members of a family. Among these elders there may be presidents of stakes, apostles, or even members of the first presidency of the Church. It is not proper under these circumstances for the father to stand back and expect the elders to direct the administration of this important ordinance. The father is there. It is his right and it is his duty to preside. He should select the one who is to administer the oil, and the one who is to be mouth in prayer, and he should not feel that because there are present presiding authorities in the Church that he is therefore divested of his rights to direct the administration of that blessing of the gospel in his home. (If the father be absent, the mother should request the presiding authority present to take charge.) The father presides at the table, at prayer, and gives general directions relating to his family life whoever may be present,” -- President Joseph F. Smith, Gospel Doctrine, 5th ed. (1939), 287, quoted in President Boyd K. Packer "The Power of the Priesthood", http://www.lds.org/conference/talk/display/0,5232,23-1-1207-2,00.html, April 2010.

"While the priesthood is presently all over the world, we call on every elder and high priest, every holder of the priesthood to stand, like Gideon’s small but powerful force of 300, in his own place. We now must awaken in every elder and high priest, in every quorum and group, and in the father of every home the power of the priesthood of the Almighty." -- President Boyd K. Packer "The Power of the Priesthood", http://www.lds.org/conference/talk/display/0,5232,23-1-1207-2,00.html, April 2010.

"The authority of the priesthood is with us. After all that we have correlated and organized, it is now our responsibility to activate the power of the priesthood in the Church. Authority in the priesthood comes by way of ordination; power in the priesthood comes through faithful and obedient living in honoring covenants. It is increased by exercising and using the priesthood in righteousness," -- President Boyd K. Packer "The Power of the Priesthood", http://www.lds.org/conference/talk/display/0,5232,23-1-1207-2,00.html, April 2010.

"Every law and principle and power, every belief, every ordinance and ordination, every covenant, every sermon and every sacrament, every counsel and correction, the sealings, the calls, the releases, the service—all these have as their ultimate purpose the perfection of the individual and the family, for the Lord has said, 'This is my work and my glory—to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.'” -- President Boyd K. Packer "The Power of the Priesthood", http://www.lds.org/conference/talk/display/0,5232,23-1-1207-2,00.html, April 2010.