"Rend That Veil of Unbelief"
[O]ur Heavenly Father and our Savior, Jesus Christ, know us and love us. They know when we are in pain or suffering in any way...They feel the depth of our suffering, and we can feel of Their love and compassion in our suffering…When we wonder if we are known by our Savior and our Father in Heaven or how well They know us personally, we might remember the Savior’s words to Oliver Cowdery...The Savior reminded Oliver that He knew every detail of that pleading prayer.
- Linda S. Reeves, The Lord Has Not Forgotten You
Because He loves us, the Lord expects much of us. If we are humble, we will welcome the Lord’s invitations to repent, to sacrifice, and to serve as evidence of His perfect love for us. After all, an invitation to repent is also an invitation to receive the wonderful gift of forgiveness and peace. Therefore, “despise not … the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of Him: for whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth.”
- S. Mark Palmer, Then Jesus Beholding Him Loved Him
We live at a time when many in the world have slipped from the moorings of safety found in compliance with the commandments. It is a time of permissiveness, with society in general routinely disregarding and breaking the laws of God. We often find ourselves swimming against the current, and sometimes it seems as though the current could carry us away...He has prepared us. If we heed His words and live the commandments, we will survive... He is ever mindful of us.
- President Thomas S. Monson, Closing Remarks
The way to receive personal revelation is really quite clear. We need to desire to receive revelation, we must not harden our hearts, and then we need to ask in faith, truly believe that we will receive an answer, and then diligently keep the commandments of God…Most often personal revelation will come as we study the scriptures, listen to and follow the counsel of prophets and other Church leaders, and seek to live faithful, righteous lives…The Lord desires to bless us with guidance, wisdom, and direction in our lives.
- Barbara Thompson, Personal Revelation and Testimony
The Bread Loaf Prayer | Come Learn with Me
[O]f all God’s remarkable creations, only we, His children, are created in His image and likeness. Only we, His children, have the capacity to develop our own spiritual convictions. And only we, His children, can give voice and expression to our witness of Him. We, His children, rejoice in our privilege and sacred obligation to bear record of Him and His gospel...it is [a] sacred privilege to help a child know the Creator of this world and to bear record of the love that He has for every one of His children.
- Susan L. Warner, Bear Record of Him
I testify that one cannot come to full faith in this latter-day work...until he or she embraces the divinity of the Book of Mormon and the Lord Jesus Christ, of whom it testifies... Witnesses, even witnesses who were for a time hostile to Joseph, testified to their death that they had seen an angel and had handled the plates. “They have been shown unto us by the power of God, and not of man,” they declared. “Wherefore we know of a surety that the work is true.”... I want it absolutely clear when I stand before the judgment bar of God that I declared to the world, in the most straightforward language I could summon, that the Book of Mormon is true.
- Jeffrey R. Holland, Safety for the Soul
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