Passages drawn from the sermons and published works that carry this theme forward.
1860·Orson Hyde·Apostle
Many churches are built up in the world, professedly, unto the name of Christ. But have they present revelation? No, they have not. They despise the idea of present revelation, and kill the Prophets that give them, and persecute the people that believe them. Will the gates of hell prevail against such? To whom will our Saviour say—"Depart from me, ye workers of iniquity; I know you not"? Will it not be to those who are not built upon this rock? Now for politics.
1878·Orson Pratt·Apostle
We are are not to go further than our thoughts can carry us, to some remote unknown place, concerning which there has been no revelation given. But we will return to our earth, and then will be fulfilled that part of the vision where John says, "And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold the Tabernacle of God is with man, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
1925·Heber J. Grant·Prophet
"Behold, a marvelous work is about to come forth among the children of men." (As I look at this marvelous audience and think of the people on the outside, who are hearing what I say, as well as the audiences in Barratt Hall and the Assembly Hall, surely I can say that this revelation, given to the father of the prophet and the patriarch, has been literally fulfilled.)
1939·Stephen L Richards·Apostle
by our Church from its very beginning, this glorious concept of man's intelligence and his incomparable status in the universe, upon which more light and clearer explanation have come through the latter-day revelations of our Prophet than from any other source whatsoever, lie at the very foundation of, and indeed constitute the essence of the most discussed, the most contested, and the most priceless thing in the world today, — human liberty. It is as a premise to a few observations on this important subject that I have cited some of our doctrine.
1962·Mark E. Petersen·Apostle
There is only one way to combat error, and that is with the truth. If men lost the truth, they could only find it by receiving it again from the Lord, and that would entail new revelation from the heavens.
1963·Joseph Fielding Smith·Apostle
he gets knowledge, for if he does not get knowledge, he will be brought into captivity by some evil power in the other world, as evil spirits will have more knowledge, and consequently more power than many men who are on the earth. Hence it needs revelation to assist us, and give us knowledge of the things of God." (Ibid., 4, 588.)
