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(3/24/03)
"The path of safety to the learned and all of us in the kingdom of God is
to hearken and obey the counsels of God in all things." — Delbert L. Stapley, May 5, 1964, "BYU
Speeches of the Year," p. 3
(3/25/03)
"Amidst the greatest learning that the world has ever seen, we have seen
the greatest perishing the world has ever seen, and our greatest learning has
been utilized for the destruction of God's children. 'But to be learned is good
if they hearken unto the counsels of God.' Again, no man receiveth the fulness
of truth-no man may be truly educated-except he keep the commandments of our
Father in heaven." — Joseph F. Smith,
"Conference Report," April 1946, p. 62
(3/26/03)
"If a person chooses to set aside the things of the Spirit while pursuing
only academic endeavors, the outcome is predictable. For those who choose to row
with only one oar for an extended period of time, one set of muscles is
strengthened while the others become atrophied. At a later date, as graduates
with degrees, such individuals may stack their acquired academic knowledge
against the thin threads of a faith that has been weakened through neglect.
Their spiritual strength may have remained at or retrogressed to an elementary
school level. And when they endeavor to make judgments of things of the Spirit
that come only by faith, the great reservoir of truth into which they could have
dipped will be shallow, discolored, or stagnant." — Ardeth Greene Kapp, "I Walk by
Faith," [Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1987], p. 98-99
(3/27/03)
"The inability of the learning of the world to successfully deal with our
sick society today is due to the fact that both the learned and the unlearned
reckon without knowledge of or belief in the realities of eternity, past and
future. So doing, their prospects for success, in spite of their boasted
advances in behavioral and social sciences, are no greater than would be those
of a playwright writing what he considered to be a one-act play, but which in
fact was to be the second act of a three-act play. The first act would have
already been presented and would have dealt with matters that he had no
knowledge of or belief in; and the guidelines for the third act, which he
likewise had no knowledge of or belief in, would have already been irreversibly
established." — Marion G. Romney,
"Learning for the Eternities," [Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co.,
1977], p. 51
(3/28/03)
"The two groups who have the greatest difficulty in following the prophet
are the proud who are learned and the proud who are rich. The learned may feel
the prophet is only inspired when he agrees with them; otherwise, the prophet is
just giving his opinion-speaking as a man. The rich may feel they have no need
to take counsel of a lowly prophet." — Ezra
Taft Benson, "The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson," [Salt Lake City:
Bookcraft, 1988], p. 138