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(7/20/03)
"'Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy
soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment.
And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as
thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.'
(Matthew 22:36-40.) Jesus did not invent this principle. Love of God was
basic in the law of Moses: 'Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all
thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.'
(Deuteronomy 6:5.) The law of Moses also contains an injunction to love
one's neighbor: 'Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the
children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I
am the Lord.' (Leviticus 19:18.) Jesus' contribution was to bring these
two commandments together, quoting them separately but showing their
relationship to each other and also, as he so often did, showing how the
whole of religion stems from love for God and love for our fellow human
beings." — Lowell L. Bennion, "Legacies of Jesus," [Salt Lake City:
Deseret Book Co., 1990], p. 23
10/6/15
I repeat, let us not drive a wedge between faith and knowledge. We
need both. I love my bishop, who is a businessman, and I have sought
his counsel in spiritual and family affairs, but should the need
arise, I shall not ask him to remove my appendix. The great problems
facing us in the world today are far more intricate than an
appendectomy. We need to unite all the faith and idealism the gospel
can provide and to combine it with all the wisdom of human
experience, no matter who has it. - Lowell
L. Bennion, "Conference Report," April 1968, General Priesthood
Meeting, p. 99
1/26/16
What about our education today in the Church? Are you and I as
hungry to know? Are we aware of our lack of wisdom? Are our minds
burning and hungering and thirsting for knowledge, as I think
Joseph's was, and Brigham Young's, and my father's, and others? We
inherit land and money and debts and other things, but education is
not inherited any more than character is. The German poet Goethe
said, "What from your father's heritage is lent, earn it anew to
really possess it." We inherit only the opportunity, the tradition,
and I hope the motivation to seek learning and wisdom and education.
- Lowell L. Bennion, "Conference
Report," April 1968, General Priesthood Meeting, p.96