"The gift of the Holy Ghost...quickens all the intellectual faculties,
enlarges, expands, and purifies all the natural passions and
affections; and adapts them, by the gift of wisdom, to their lawful
use. It inspires, develops, cultivates and matures all the fine-toned
sympathies, joys, tastes, kindred feelings, and affections of our
nature. It inspires virtue, kindness, goodness, tenderness, gentlenss,
and charity. It develops beauty of person, form and features. It tends
to health, vigor, animation, and social feeling. It invigorates all the
faculties of the physical and intellectual man. It strengthens, and gives
tone to the nerves. In short, it is, as it were, marrow to the bone,
joy to the heart, light to the eyes, music to the ears, and life to the
whole being."
Parley P. Pratt
"You may know. You need not be in doubt... The necessary procedure
is: study, think, pray, and do... The Lord has promised repeatedly
that he will give you a knowledge of spiritual things when you have
placed yourself in a proper frame of mind... 'And by the power of
the Holy Ghost ye may know the truth of all thing.' (Moroni 10:5)"
President Spencer W. Kimball
"As a boy...I would frequently go out and ask the Lord to show me some
marvelous thing in order that I might receive a testimony. But the Lord
withheld marvels from me, and showed me the truth, line upon line,
precept upon precept, here a little and there a little, until he made
me to know the truth from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet,
and until doubt and fear had been absolutely purged from me... By the
whisperings of the still small voice of the Spirit of the living God, he
gave to me the testimony I possess. And by this principle and power
he will give to the children of men a knowledge of truth that will stay
with them, and it wil make them to know the truth, as God knows it, and
to do the will of the Father as Christ does it."
President Joseph F. Smith, Gospel Doctrine, p.7
"Jesus was the only teacher tall enough to see over the walls that
divide the human race into compartments."
Frank Crane
"The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the
outside in... The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can
change human nature."
President Ezra Taft Benson
"Nothing is going to startle us more when we pass through the veil
to the other side than to realize how well we know our Father and
how familiar his face is to us."
Ezra Taft Benson
"I want to tell you, each and every one of you, that you are well
acquainted with God our Heavenly Father... You are all well acquainted
with him, for there is not a soul of you but what has lived in his
house and dwelt with him year after year; and yet you are seeking to
become acquainted with him, when the fact is, you have merely
forgotten what you did know."
Brigham Young
"Men and women who turn their lives to God will find out that He
can make a lot more out of their lives than they can. He will deepen
their joys, expand their vision, quicken their minds, strengthen
their muscles, lift their spirits, multiply their blessings, increase
their opportunities, comfort their souls, raise up friends, and pour
out peace. Whoever will lose his life to God will find he has eternal
life."
President Ezra Taft Benson
