Passages drawn from the sermons and published works that carry this theme forward.
1856·Parley P. Pratt·Apostle
If any body needs a miracle, this is one for them. Has any person, or I might say, have all persons power upon natural principles, by their own wisdom and power, to take people of different nations, and languages, and tongues, habits, customs, and religions, and unite them in one common band, civil and religious, and then govern them in a great measure as a unit? I ask, have they the power? I would like to see it tried somewhere, either in Kansas or in some part of the United States; or elsewhere.
1859·Amasa Lyman·Apostle
This is the way I look at and think of our religion, and this I consider to be the right, the proper way for us to patiently, faithfully, and properly live our religion. We are afflicted in our country with a great deal of evil: there are evils of an out. door character that are very troublesome and annoying, aside from those things that annoy us at home, when, if we lived our religion at home effectually, there would be less inclination of the youthful mind to vice, folly, and nonsense.
1914·Francis M. Lyman·Apostle
we go to the stakes, we go to the wards, we find the very choicest and most model men have been chosen and are employed. The same is true of our sisters in the Relief Societies, in the Primary Associations, and in the Religion Class work. Our brethren and sisters are thus being well trained. In the quorums and classes of the Priesthood they are being more thoroughly trained now than ever in the Church, and these trainings, lessons, instructions, and experiences tend to establish the Latter-day Saints. But there is, no doubt, room for improvement, and always will be.
1919·Joseph F. Smith·Prophet
PROPER READING. There is altogether too much novel reading of that class of novels which teaches nothing useful, and only tends to the excitement of the emotions. Excessive novel reading we all know is detrimental to the intellectual development of those who engage in it, and the wise and those who seek advancement might well give more time to useful, educational works--books that would enlighten the reader on history, biography, religion, and other important subjects which all well-informed people are expected to understand.
1932·Heber J. Grant·Prophet
Significance of motives, 100 — Conference assemblies, 100 — Actuality of religion, 100 — Christ's affirmation of his divinity, 101 — The revolt at Nazareth, 101 — Predicted signs of the end, 102' — Elijah's coming, 102 — A specific instance of denial, 103 — Signs of the time, 103.
1955·Stephen L Richards·Apostle
It has been my observation that although young, these missionaries quickly attain a maturity in thought, judgment, and wisdom that is without parallel for those of their age. As ministers of religion they are frequently confronted with important problems and situations of vital nature to those concerned. They handle organizational matters; they deal with delicate domestic problems; they give fatherly counsel to young and old alike; and they bless with a sagacity and power far beyond the maturity of their years. You know what it is, my brethren and sisters, which enables them so
