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(1/14/04)
"When we use these sacred words, 'in the name of Jesus Christ,' they
are much more than a way to get out of a prayer or out of a testimony
or out of a talk. We are on holy ground, brothers and sisters. We are
using a name most sublime, most holy, and most wonderful-the very name
of the Son of God. We are now able to come unto the Father through His
Beloved Son. What power and reassurance and peace come when we really
pray in His name. This conclusion to the prayer may, in many ways, be
the most important part of the prayer. We can appeal to the Father
through His victorious Son with confidence that our prayers will be
heard. We can ask and receive, we can seek and find and subsequently
find the open door." - L. Edward Brown, "Pray
unto
the Father in My Name," General Conference, April 1997
8/19/09
“The natural inclination of man is to rely solely upon himself and
to ignore the purpose of his existence as well as his relationship
to God who is his spiritual father. If man will recognize his divine
origin, he will then realize his Heavenly Father will not leave him
alone to grope in darkness of mind and spirit, but will make
available a power to influence him in right paths and into standards
of good behavior. The Holy Ghost is that power.” - Delbert L.
Stapley, “Conference Report,” October 1966, Third Day–Morning
Meeting, p. 114
12/10/09
“Burdens provide
opportunities to practice virtues that contribute to eventual
perfection. They invite us to yield ‘to the enticings of the Holy
Spirit, and [put] off the natural man and [become] a saint through the
atonement of Christ the Lord, and [become] as a child, submissive,
meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things
which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon [us], even as a child doth
submit to his father.’ Thus burdens become blessings, though often
such blessings are well disguised and may require time, effort, and
faith to accept and understand.” – L. Clayton Whitney, “That Your
Burdens May Be Light,” Ensign, November 2009
8/16/14
Why would God command us to beware? He knows that Satan is an
actual being who seeks to drag down our souls into the gulf of
misery. God also knows that lurking within priesthood holders is
a “natural man” “prone to wander.” Thus, prophets invite us to
“put off the old man” and “put on Christ” through faith,
repentance, saving ordinances, and daily gospel living. - Anthony
D. Perkins, “Beware
Concerning Yourselves,” Ensign (CR) November 2012
6/19/15
People who speak of their private lives as a
thing apart from their professions would well
remember this sentence from Stanford
University's Dr. David Starr Jordan: "There is
no real excellence in all this world," he
said, "which can be separated from right
living." (The University and the Common Man.)
- Richard
L. Evans, "Conference Report," April
1969, Afternoon Meeting, p. 74
7/20/15
The only way we can know God is to live as he lives, to think as he
thinks, and to experience what he experiences. Interpreted in this
light, we are brought face to face with the powerful Mormon doctrine
which declares that "As man is God once was, and as God is man may
be." It is positively true that the growth, the eternal progression,
for which life offers opportunities reach their culminating point in a
life patterned after that of Jesus; therefore, it is the purpose of
life to live as the Savior taught us to live and as he himself lived.
- Milton R. Hunter, "Conference Report," October 1945, Afternoon
Meeting, p. 111
1/3/16
My brethren and sisters, it is religion that must solve the problems
of our civilization today, and if we do not go back to God and the
religion of the Master, our western civilization is destined to be
destroyed. Religion at its best has supplied, and it can now supply,
"the motives, faiths, insights, hopes, convictions, by which men
inwardly come to terms with themselves and with their fellow men."
We must come to a new spiritual ascendency over our baser selves. To
achieve peace in this world of ours, this will have to be done. - Levi
Edgar Young, "Conference Report," October 1936, Second Day-Morning
Meeting, p.67