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(12/7/97)
"Faith to heal the sick is one of the most desirable gifts of the gospel
and should be sought after by all Melchizedek Priesthood holders. They
should always be ready to exercise this power in behalf of those who
need a blessing. They should seek to have and develop the gift of faith,
faith to heal and faith to be healed. 'And whoso ask it in my name in
faith,' the Lord has said, 'they shall cast out devils: they shall heal
the sick; they shall cause the blind to receive their sight, and the
deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak, and the lame to walk.' (D&C
35:9.)"—Elder James A. Cullimore, Gifts Of The Spirit, General
Conference, October 1974
(12/8/97)
"The sixth article of faith states that, among other spiritual gifts, we
believe in the gift of healing. To me, this gift extends to the healing
of both the body and the spirit. The Spirit speaks peace to the soul.
This spiritual solace comes by invoking spiritual gifts, which are
claimed and manifested in many ways. They are rich, and full, and
abundant in the Church today. They flow from the proper and humble use
of a testimony. They also come through the administering to the sick
following an anointing with consecrated oil. Christ is the great
Physician, who rose from the dead 'with healing in his wings' (2 Nephi
25:13), while the Comforter is the agency of healing."—Elder James E.
Faust, Spiritual Healing, General Conference, April 1992
(12/9/97)
"Let us remember and ponder upon these counsels, and cleave to the
Priesthood and have confidence in it; and let the Elders administer to
the sick in faith, and let them rebuke disease when the Spirit prompts
them, and it will be rebuked, and the sick will be healed by the power
of God. Every Elder in Israel should so live before the Lord as to have
confidence in Him to do this."—Erastus Snow, Journal of Discourses,
Vol.25, p.38 - p.39
(12/10/97)
"My thoughts go back at the moment to when I was a little boy. I was
awfully sick, I thought. I do not think my sickness was very serious. I
may have had a bad case of measles or something like that, but I was
sick, and I was miserable, and my father had lived so closely to me that
I was just as certain as that I lived that when my father came home and
I asked him to administer to me that I would be healed. Do you think a
boy can go through that kind of an experience with his father and have
his prayers answered, have his faith justified, and not love that
father? And even more important than that, not, have a keen realization
and appreciation of the power that his father has by virtue of the
Priesthood which has been conferred upon him? I am sure that from that
moment on I lived as far as I can review my life in my own mind, to
receive that same Priesthood, to perform that same service in behalf of
my family when I might be blessed with one, and I never cease to be
grateful to the Lord for the almost innumerable instances when I have
had the privilege of exercising my Priesthood outside the family circle
in behalf of my brethren and sisters throughout the Church, and being
absolutely conscious when I laid my hands upon their heads that there
was a power there making itself manifest in my ministry, that would
bring about the purposes of our Heavenly Father here upon this
earth."—Henry D. Moyle, Conference Report, October 1959, p.83 -
p.84
(12/11/97)
"We should take hold of these principles and strive to apply them in our
lives. How can we increase our faith in God? How can we gain power by
this principle? Why, simply by the exercise of the power of faith in our
hearts. We must have a great desire in our hearts for these things, we
must put forth our hands whenever occasion arises in order to develop
this power within us. Exercise faith? Yes. Do the sick need to be
healed? Yes. There has never been a promise annulled. If the sick
exercise faith, and those who are called in of the Priesthood exercise
faith, the sick shall be healed: if they are not appointed unto death
they shalt rise: if they die, they die unto the Lord, if they live they
live unto the Lord. What a mighty opportunity there is for the blessing
and also for the cultivation of this power within man, to exercise it
whenever occasion requires. The sick will be healed; the sick are healed
by this power."—Joseph B. Keeler, Conference Report, October
1914, p.47
(12/12/97)
"Is there healing in mere clay to make eyes see? Is there medicinal
value in the spittle to cure infirmities? Are there curative properties
in the waters of Siloam to open eyes of congenital blind? The answer is
obvious. The miracle was conceived in the womb of faith and born and
matured in the act of obedience."—Spencer W. Kimball, Conference
Report, October 1954, p.55
(12/13/97)
"I will tell you a story and then I shall stop. I got a telephone
message some time ago, I think a year ago, may be, that I had some
relatives in the hospital. They wanted me to hurry up there and
administer to them. They were two sisters. They were married, and they
were not city people, and, by the way, their father and mother were good
Latter-day Saints, and these young girls had been taught and they had
been active, but they were not healed, so they came to the hospital.
When I arrived I found one of them in one room, and she had been
operated upon, and getting along very nicely. The other sister wanted me
to bless her before she was operated upon. I asked her how much she was
paying for her room. She told me. 'And how much are you paying the
doctor?'
'Three hundred dollars.'
'Well, haven't you got confidence in him? He is charging you enough. Why
don't you trust him?'
'Well,' she said, 'Uncle Golden, I have been administered to, but I was
not healed, and I felt forced to come to the doctor.'
I said, 'I am a little jealous for God, and if I bless you, and you are
healed, who is going to get the credit? If the doctor gets all the money
and all the credit, and God heals you, I don't think that fair.'
So I blessed her as best I knew how, and I blessed the doctor. I made a
full anointing and blessed the nurse, and asked God that his spirit
might be there and the patient's life be spared. I realize that
hospitals, physicians, and surgeons, do wonderful things, and that faith
without works is dead. I want to bear testimony to you, and I know it, I
don't think it, I don't imagine it: I have seen God heal the sick. I
know it isn't in me, but I know that where there is faith there is
nothing impossible, and these young elders who are sent out now, it may
not be wisdom to send them out as we went, but when we were in the
South, God had to take care of us, whether it was stormy or sunshine, as
we had no choice. I know the Lord can take care of us and will take care
of us if we have faith."—J. Golden Kimball, Conference Report,
October 1927, p.54
(7/31/00)
"Certainly the greatest miracles of our day are the lifting and healing
of troubled souls. Spiritual strength is a priceless possession
available to those who will endure in righteousness. The healing of the
troubled soul gives health and strength to those dead in things
righteous. Purity, faith, hope, and charity are restored, making the
once spiritually sick whole." — "He Took Him by The Hand", Elder Marvin
J. Ashton, General Conference, October 1973
(8/1/00)
"Love is a potent healer." — "To Be Healed", Elder Richard G. Scott,
General Conference, April 1994
(8/2/00)
"The greatest miracles I see today are not necessarily the healing of
sick bodies, but the greatest miracles I see are the healing of sick
souls, those who are sick in soul and spirit and are downhearted and
distraught, on the verge of nervous breakdowns. We are reaching out to
all such, because they are precious in the sight of the Lord, and we
want no one to feel that they are forgotten." — "Stand Ye in Holy
Places", President Harold B. Lee, General Conference, April 1973
(8/3/00)
"If you are caught on a plateau of spiritual healing and don't seem to
be making progress, if you seem to be constantly dependent on another
mortal for support, look up in faith to Jesus Christ. I know that the
Master loves you and will heal you according to your faith in Him." —
"To Be Healed", Elder Richard G. Scott, General Conference, April 1994
(8/4/00)
"The Savior's atonement in the garden and on the cross is intimate as
well as infinite. Infinite in that it spans the eternities. Intimate in
that the Savior felt each person's pains, sufferings, and sicknesses.
Consequently, he knows how to carry our sorrows and relieve our burdens
that we might be healed from within, made whole persons, and receive
everlasting joy in his kingdom. May our faith in the Father and the Son
help each of us to become whole." — "The Power to Heal from Within",
Bishop Merrill J. Bateman, General Conference, April 1995
2/2/08
"Getting people's spirits healed
through conversion is the only way they can be healed. I know this is an
unpopular doctrine and a slow way to solve the problems of men and
nations. As a matter of fact, I am convinced that relatively few among
the billions of earth's inhabitants will be converted. Nevertheless, I
know and solemnly witness that there is no other means by which the
sin-sick souls of men can be healed or for a troubled world to find
peace. I know that the unbelieving will reject this divine way. But this
is nothing new. They have been rejecting it ever since the time of Cain.
They have from the beginning refused to accept Christ and his gospel.
They killed the ancient prophets. They burned Abinadi. They stoned
Samuel the Lamanite. They crucified the Lord himself. In our own day
they martyred Joseph Smith, Jun., the great prophet of the restoration.
But all that has happened in the past has not, and all that occurs in
the future will not change the truth that conversion to Jesus Christ and
his gosel is the one and only way; for still it must be said that 'there
is
none other way given under heaven by which men must be saved.'
(See Acts 4:12.)
To this I witness in solemn testimony."
- Marion G. Romney, "Conference
Report," October 1963,
Afternoon Meeting, p.26
2/22/09
"As
I listened, the Spirit bore witness of the great miracles of the
Atonement and the Savior's power to mend broken hearts, to heal from
within. The Savior's parable of the ten lepers took on new meaning.
Luke describes Jesus meeting ten lepers. Upon seeing the Savior, they
cried, 'Jesus, Master,
have mercy on us.' Jesus
responded: 'Go shew
yourselves unto the priests.'
As they went their way, they were cleansed. One returned, fell on his
face at the Master's feet, and gave thanks. Jesus said, 'Were
there not ten cleansed? but where are the nine? And then the Lord said
to the one who returned, Arise, go thy way: thy faith hath made thee
whole' (see Luke 17:12-19). In
becoming a whole person, the grateful leper was healed inside as well
as on the outside. That day nine lepers were healed skin deep, but
only one had the faith to be made whole. The tenth leper ... [was]
changed eternally by [his] faith
in the Savior and the healing power of his atonement."
- Merrill J. Bateman, "The Power to Heal from Within," Ensign
(CR), May 1995, p.13
7/7/09
“Parents, take time in the next home evening to caution your family
never to amuse themselves at the expense of the handicapped or of any
whose face or form or personality does not fit the supposed ideal or
whose skin is too light or too dark to suit their fancy. Teach them
that they, in their own way, should become like angels who "move the
water," healing a spirit by erasing loneliness, embarrassment, or
rejection.” - Boyd K. Packer, “The Moving of
the Water,” Ensign (CR), May 1991, p. 7
5/5/10
"The only one who can
accomplish the healing of a sick soul is the Great Physician Himself,
our Father in Heaven, through His Son, Jesus Christ. Jesus promised
those who will come to Him with full purpose of heart and repent: "I
shall heal them" (3 Ne. 18:32). The Church cannot heal; priesthood
leaders do not heal; only an omnipotent God can accomplish the miracle
of spiritual healing." - Malcolm S.
Jeppsen, "A Divine Prescription for Spiritual Healing," Ensign (CR),
May 1994, p. 17
8/17/10
"Faith is essential for
healing by the powers of heaven. The Book of Mormon even teaches that
'if there be no faith among the children of men God can do no miracle
among them' (Ether
12:12). In a notable talk on administering to the sick, President
Spencer W. Kimball said: 'The need of faith is often underestimated. The
ill one and the family often seem to depend wholly on the power of the
priesthood and the gift of healing that they hope the administering
brethren may have, whereas the greater responsibility is with him who is
blessed. . . . The major element is the faith of the individual when
that person is conscious and accountable. 'Thy faith hath made thee
whole' [Matthew 9:22]
was repeated so often by the Master that it almost became a chorus.'" -
Dallin H. Oaks, "Healing
the Sick," Ensign (CR) May 2010
9/21/10
“[W]e
find
healing and relief only when we bring ourselves to the feet of the
Great Physician, our Savior, Jesus Christ. We must lay down our
weapons of rebellion (and we each know what they are). We must lay
down our sin, vanity, and pride. We must give up our desires to follow
the world and to be respected and lauded by the world. We must cease
fighting against God and instead give our whole hearts to Him, holding
nothing back. Then He can heal us. Then He can cleanse us from the
venomous sting of sin.” - Patrick
Kearon, "Come
unto Me with Full Purpose of Heart, and I Shall Heal You,”
Ensign (CR) October 2010
11/30/12
Someway, somehow, we must
find the healing influence that brings solace to the soul. Where is
this balm? Where is the compensating relief so desperately needed to
help us survive in the world’s pressures? The onsetting comfort in
large measure can come through increased communion with the Spirit
of God. This can bring spiritual healing. - James E. Faust, "Spiritual
Healing," Ensign (CR) May 1992
11/29/14
To those who are ill and suffering pain and the vicissitudes
of this life, we extend particular love and concern. Our
hearts and prayers go out to you. Remember what father Lehi
said in blessing his son Jacob, who had suffered at the hands
of his older brothers Laman and Lemuel. He said, “Thou knowest
the greatness of God; and he shall consecrate thine
afflictions for thy gain.” (2
Ne. 2:2.) And so he will for you. - Ezra
Taft Benson, “To
the Elderly in the Church,” Ensign (CR) October 1989
11/24/15
Jesus
healed many from physical diseases, but He did not withhold healing
from those who sought to be "made whole" from other ailments.
Matthew writes that He healed every sickness and every disease among
the people (see Matthew
4:23; 9:35).
Great multitudes followed Him, and He "healed them all" (Matthew
12:15). Surely these healings included those whose sicknesses
were emotional, mental, or spiritual. He healed them all. - Dallin
H. Oaks, "He
Heals the Heavy Laden,” Ensign (CR) October 2006
10/10/16
For
us, miraculous healing, powerful protection, divine
knowledge, liberating forgiveness, and precious peace are among the
answers that come when we offer up a “soul’s sincere desire” in faith.
– Carol F. McConkie, “The
Soul’s
Sincere Desire,” Ensign (CR) November 2016