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(1/07/03)
"That is what Easter means-not only that Christ lives, but that we
shall live, that life is immortal, and because He broke the bands of
death, resurrection is guaranteed to all men everywhere. This is the
most hopeful message in all the world, for every man shrinks at the
thought of extinction. We all hope for immortality, and Christ has
guaranteed it to us. The degree, the status, the position will depend
in large measure upon ourselves, but the resurrection is an
accomplished fact." — Hugh B.
Brown, "The Abundant Life," [Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1965], p. 301
(1/08/03)
"This is the knowledge that sustains. This is the truth that comforts.
This is the assurance that guides those bowed down with grief out of
the shadows and into the light. Such help is not restricted to the
elderly, the well educated, or a select few. It is available to all."
— Thomas S. Monson, "Be Your Best
Self," [Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1979], p. 6
(1/09/03)
"The truth about man's premortal existence thus can cradle us amid the
vastness and the otherwise inexplicableness of space, reassuring us of
man's worth and of God's overseership. As we encounter the 'what' of
space, the plan of salvation gives to us the 'why.' If it were not so
we might myopically conclude that 'all flesh is grass' (Isaiah 40:6),
ultimately as well as proximately. Isaiah's words, however, pertain
not to man's worthlessness but to the transitoriness of this second
estate. It is the briefest of our estates, like unto the 'small
moment' twice emphasized by the Lord to Joseph in the prison-temple."
— Neal A. Maxwell, "But for a
Small Moment," [Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1986], p. 88
(1/10/03)
"That knowledge comes from the word of scripture, and that testimony
comes by the power of the Holy Ghost. It is a gift, sacred and
wonderful, borne by revelation from the third member of the Godhead. I
believe in the Holy Ghost as a personage of spirit who occupies a
place with the Father and the Son, these three constituting the divine
Godhead." — Gordon B. Hinckley,
"Faith: The Essence of True Religion," [Salt Lake City: Deseret Book
Co., 1989], p. 25
(1/11/03)
"It is in this spirit that I add my own witness. Our Eternal Father
lives. He stands as the great God of the universe, ruling in majesty
and power. And yet He is my Father, to whom I may go in prayer with
the assurance that He will hear, listen, and answer. Jesus is the
Christ, His immortal Son, who under His Father's direction was the
Creator of the earth. He was the great Jehovah of the Old Testament,
who condescended to come into the world as the Messiah, who gave His
life on Calvary's cross in His wondrous Atonement because He loved us.
The work in which we are engaged is their work, and we are their
servants, who are answerable to them." —
Gordon B. Hinckley, "Testimony," "Ensign," May 1998, p. 71
12/18/16
With
torn and broken bread, we signify that we remember the physical body
of Jesus Christ—a body that was buffeted with pains, afflictions, and
temptations of every kind, a body that bore a burden of anguish
sufficient to bleed at every pore, a body whose flesh was torn and
whose heart was broken in crucifixion. We signify our belief that
while that same body was laid to rest in death, it was raised again to
life from the grave, never again to know disease, decay, or death. And
in taking the bread to ourselves, we acknowledge that, like Christ’s
mortal body, our bodies will be released from the bonds of death, rise
triumphantly from the grave, and be restored to our eternal spirits. –
James J. Hamula, “The
Sacrament
and the Atonement,” Ensign (CR) November 2014
12/20/16
With a small cup of water, we signify that we remember the blood
Jesus spilled and the spiritual suffering He endured for all
mankind. We remember the agony that caused great drops of blood to
fall in Gethsemane. We remember the bruising and scourging He
endured at the hands of His captors. We remember the blood He
spilled from His hands, feet, and side while at Calvary. And we
remember His personal reflection on His suffering: “How sore you
know not, how exquisite you know not, yea, how hard to bear you know
not.” In taking the water to ourselves, we acknowledge that His
blood and suffering atoned for our sins and that He will remit our
sins as we embrace and accept the principles and ordinances of His
gospel. – James J.
Hamula, “The
Sacrament and the Atonement,” Ensign (CR) November 2014