Browsing Quotes With Tag: revelation (14)
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Each of us has the privilege and responsibility to become fluent in the language of the Spirit.
Speaker: LDS ChurchSource: D&C Sunday School ManualPosted: 13 Feb 2013 at 8:52 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Sometimes you may struggle with a problem and not get an answer. What could be wrong? It may be that you are not doing anything wrong. It may be that you have not done the right things long enough. Remember, you cannot force spiritual things. Sometimes we are confused simply because we won’t take no for an answer. …
“Put difficult questions in the back of your minds and go about your lives. Ponder and pray quietly and persistently about them.
“The answer may not come as a lightning bolt. It may come as a little inspiration here and a little there, ‘line upon line, precept upon precept’ (D&C 98:12).
“Some answers will come from reading the scriptures, some from hearing speakers. And, occasionally, when it is important, some will come by very direct and powerful inspiration. The promptings will be clear and unmistakable”.
Speaker: Elder Boyd K. PackerSource: Conference Report, Oct. 1979, 29–30; or Ensign, Nov. 1979, 21Posted: 13 Feb 2013 at 8:49 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“When we seek inspiration to help make decisions, the Lord gives gentle promptings. These require us to think, to exercise faith, to work, to struggle at times, and to act. Seldom does the whole answer to a decisively important matter or complex problem come all at once. More often, it comes a piece at a time, without the end in sight”.
Speaker: Elder Richard G. ScottSource: Conference Report, Oct. 1989, 40; or Ensign, Nov. 1989, 32Posted: 13 Feb 2013 at 8:41 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“. . .to read the words of Christ already before us is a good thing to do before asking for more.”
Speaker: Elder Neal A. MaxwellSource: Wherefore, Ye Must Press Forward [1977], 121Posted: 28 Jan 2013 at 11:22 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Scripture reading may … lead to current revelation on whatever [subject] the Lord wishes to communicate to the reader at that time. We do not overstate the point when we say that the scriptures can be a Urim and Thummim to assist each of us to receive personal revelation.
“Because we believe that scripture reading can help us receive revelation, we are encouraged to read the scriptures again and again. By this means, we obtain access to what our Heavenly Father would have us know and do in our personal lives today. That is one reason Latter-day Saints believe in daily scripture study”
Source: Scripture Reading and Revelation,” Ensign, Jan. 1995, 8Posted: 28 Jan 2013 at 11:11 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The ability to qualify for, receive, and act on personal revelation is the single most important skill that can be acquired in this life.
Speaker: Julie B. BeckSource: Ensign, 2010, MayPosted: 25 Aug 2010 at 9:07 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The human problem is not to get revelation, but to understand revelation. And, when they understand, to respond.
Speaker: Charles DidierPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:10 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Revelation is a reality to be discovered by everyone.
Speaker: Charles DidierPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:08 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The philosophical meanderings of uninspired men… something more destructive than the crosses of early Christianity.
Speaker: M. Russell BallardPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:57 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I used to refer to the Book of Mormon as a history of an ancient civilization before and after the time of Christ; I would never do that now. This book is a compilation of teachings of prophets about the Messiah, and of the Messiah about Himself.
Speaker: Dalin H. OaksPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:50 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Remember that oft times the wisdom of God appears as foolishness to men, but the greatest single lesson we can learn in morality is that when God speaks and a man obeys, that man will always be right.
Speaker: Thomas S. MonsonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 11:59 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We do not have to defend the prophet Joseph Smith. The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ will defend him for us. Those who reject Joseph Smith as a prophet and revelator are left to find some other explanation for the Book of Mormon.
Speaker: Boyd K. PackerPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 11:27 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The doctrine of inspiration is lost… miracles, prophecy… the holy life, exist as ancient history [only]… men have come to speak of… revelation as somewhat long ago given and done, as if God were dead… It is the office of a true teacher to show us that God is, not was; that He speaketh, not spake.
Speaker: Ralph Waldo EmersonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 10:48 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It seems to me [an]… unreasonable thing, to suppose that there should be a God… that has so much concern [for us]… and yet that He should never speak,… that there should be no word [from Him].
Speaker: Jonathan EdwardsPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 10:36 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!