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(12/7/97)
"Faith to heal the sick is one of the most desirable gifts of the
gospel and should be sought after by all Melchizedek Priesthood
holders. They should always be ready to exercise this power in behalf
of those who need a blessing. They should seek to have and develop the
gift of faith, faith to heal and faith to be healed. 'And whoso ask it
in my name in faith,' the Lord has said, 'they shall cast out devils:
they shall heal the sick; they shall cause the blind to receive their
sight, and the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak, and the lame to
walk.' (D&C 35:9.)"—Elder James A. Cullimore, Gifts Of The
Spirit, General Conference, October 1974
(12/8/97)
"The sixth article of faith states that, among other spiritual gifts,
we believe in the gift of healing. To me, this gift extends to the
healing of both the body and the spirit. The Spirit speaks peace to the
soul. This spiritual solace comes by invoking spiritual gifts, which
are claimed and manifested in many ways. They are rich, and full, and
abundant in the Church today. They flow from the proper and humble use
of a testimony. They also come through the administering to the sick
following an anointing with consecrated oil. Christ is the great
Physician, who rose from the dead 'with healing in his wings' (2 Nephi
25:13), while the Comforter is the agency of healing."—Elder James E.
Faust, Spiritual Healing, General Conference, April 1992
(12/9/97)
"Let us remember and ponder upon these counsels, and cleave to the
Priesthood and have confidence in it; and let the Elders administer to
the sick in faith, and let them rebuke disease when the Spirit prompts
them, and it will be rebuked, and the sick will be healed by the power
of God. Every Elder in Israel should so live before the Lord as to have
confidence in Him to do this."—Erastus Snow, Journal of Discourses,
Vol.25, p.38 - p.39
(12/10/97)
"My thoughts go back at the moment to when I was a little boy. I was
awfully sick, I thought. I do not think my sickness was very serious. I
may have had a bad case of measles or something like that, but I was
sick, and I was miserable, and my father had lived so closely to me
that I was just as certain as that I lived that when my father came
home and I asked him to administer to me that I would be healed. Do you
think a boy can go through that kind of an experience with his father
and have his prayers answered, have his faith justified, and not love
that father? And even more important than that, not, have a keen
realization and appreciation of the power that his father has by virtue
of the Priesthood which has been conferred upon him? I am sure that
from that moment on I lived as far as I can review my life in my own
mind, to receive that same Priesthood, to perform that same service in
behalf of my family when I might be blessed with one, and I never cease
to be grateful to the Lord for the almost innumerable instances when I
have had the privilege of exercising my Priesthood outside the family
circle in behalf of my brethren and sisters throughout the Church, and
being absolutely conscious when I laid my hands upon their heads that
there was a power there making itself manifest in my ministry, that
would bring about the purposes of our Heavenly Father here upon this
earth."—Henry D. Moyle, Conference Report, October 1959, p.83 -
p.84
(12/11/97)
"We should take hold of these principles and strive to apply them in
our lives. How can we increase our faith in God? How can we gain power
by this principle? Why, simply by the exercise of the power of faith in
our hearts. We must have a great desire in our hearts for these things,
we must put forth our hands whenever occasion arises in order to
develop this power within us. Exercise faith? Yes. Do the sick need to
be healed? Yes. There has never been a promise annulled. If the sick
exercise faith, and those who are called in of the Priesthood exercise
faith, the sick shall be healed: if they are not appointed unto death
they shalt rise: if they die, they die unto the Lord, if they live they
live unto the Lord. What a mighty opportunity there is for the blessing
and also for the cultivation of this power within man, to exercise it
whenever occasion requires. The sick will be healed; the sick are
healed by this power."—Joseph B. Keeler, Conference Report,
October 1914, p.47
(12/12/97)
"Is there healing in mere clay to make eyes see? Is there medicinal
value in the spittle to cure infirmities? Are there curative properties
in the waters of Siloam to open eyes of congenital blind? The answer is
obvious. The miracle was conceived in the womb of faith and born and
matured in the act of obedience."—Spencer W. Kimball, Conference
Report, October 1954, p.55
(12/13/97)
"I will tell you a story and then I shall stop. I got a telephone
message some time ago, I think a year ago, may be, that I had some
relatives in the hospital. They wanted me to hurry up there and
administer to them. They were two sisters. They were married, and they
were not city people, and, by the way, their father and mother were
good Latter-day Saints, and these young girls had been taught and they
had been active, but they were not healed, so they came to the
hospital. When I arrived I found one of them in one room, and she had
been operated upon, and getting along very nicely. The other sister
wanted me to bless her before she was operated upon. I asked her how
much she was paying for her room. She told me. 'And how much are you
paying the doctor?'
'Three hundred dollars.'
'Well, haven't you got confidence in him? He is charging you enough.
Why don't you trust him?'
'Well,' she said, 'Uncle Golden, I have been administered to, but I was
not healed, and I felt forced to come to the doctor.'
I said, 'I am a little jealous for God, and if I bless you, and you are
healed, who is going to get the credit? If the doctor gets all the
money and all the credit, and God heals you, I don't think that fair.'
So I blessed her as best I knew how, and I blessed the doctor. I made a
full anointing and blessed the nurse, and asked God that his spirit
might be there and the patient's life be spared. I realize that
hospitals, physicians, and surgeons, do wonderful things, and that
faith without works is dead. I want to bear testimony to you, and I
know it, I don't think it, I don't imagine it: I have seen God heal the
sick. I know it isn't in me, but I know that where there is faith there
is nothing impossible, and these young elders who are sent out now, it
may not be wisdom to send them out as we went, but when we were in the
South, God had to take care of us, whether it was stormy or sunshine,
as we had no choice. I know the Lord can take care of us and will take
care of us if we have faith."—J. Golden Kimball, Conference Report,
October 1927, p.54
(7/31/00)
"Certainly the greatest miracles of our day are the lifting and healing
of troubled souls. Spiritual strength is a priceless possession
available to those who will endure in righteousness. The healing of the
troubled soul gives health and strength to those dead in things
righteous. Purity, faith, hope, and charity are restored, making the
once spiritually sick whole." — "He Took Him by The Hand", Elder Marvin
J. Ashton, General Conference, October 1973
(8/1/00)
"Love is a potent healer." — "To Be Healed", Elder Richard G. Scott,
General Conference, April 1994
(8/2/00)
"The greatest miracles I see today are not necessarily the healing of
sick bodies, but the greatest miracles I see are the healing of sick
souls, those who are sick in soul and spirit and are downhearted and
distraught, on the verge of nervous breakdowns. We are reaching out to
all such, because they are precious in the sight of the Lord, and we
want no one to feel that they are forgotten." — "Stand Ye in Holy
Places", President Harold B. Lee, General Conference, April 1973
(8/3/00)
"If you are caught on a plateau of spiritual healing and don't seem to
be making progress, if you seem to be constantly dependent on another
mortal for support, look up in faith to Jesus Christ. I know that the
Master loves you and will heal you according to your faith in Him." —
"To Be Healed", Elder Richard G. Scott, General Conference, April 1994
(8/4/00)
"The Savior's atonement in the garden and on the cross is intimate as
well as infinite. Infinite in that it spans the eternities. Intimate in
that the Savior felt each person's pains, sufferings, and sicknesses.
Consequently, he knows how to carry our sorrows and relieve our burdens
that we might be healed from within, made whole persons, and receive
everlasting joy in his kingdom. May our faith in the Father and the Son
help each of us to become whole." — "The Power to Heal from Within",
Bishop Merrill J. Bateman, General Conference, April 1995
2/2/08
"Getting people's spirits
healed through conversion is the only way they can be healed. I know
this is an unpopular doctrine and a slow way to solve the problems of
men and nations. As a matter of fact, I am convinced that relatively
few among the billions of earth's inhabitants will be converted.
Nevertheless, I know and solemnly witness that there is no other means
by which the sin-sick souls of men can be healed or for a troubled
world to find peace. I know that the unbelieving will reject this
divine way. But this is nothing new. They have been rejecting it ever
since the time of Cain. They have from the beginning refused to accept
Christ and his gospel. They killed the ancient prophets. They burned
Abinadi. They stoned Samuel the Lamanite. They crucified the Lord
himself. In our own day they martyred Joseph Smith, Jun., the great
prophet of the restoration. But all that has happened in the past has
not, and all that occurs in the future will not change the truth that
conversion to Jesus Christ and his gosel is the one and only way; for
still it must be said that 'there
is none other way given under heaven by which men must be saved.' (See Acts 4:12.) To this
I witness in solemn testimony." - Marion
G. Romney, "Conference
Report," October 1963,
Afternoon Meeting, p.26
2/22/09
"As I listened, the Spirit bore
witness of the great miracles of the Atonement and the Savior's power
to mend broken hearts, to heal from within. The Savior's parable of the
ten lepers took on new meaning. Luke describes Jesus meeting ten
lepers. Upon seeing the Savior, they cried, 'Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.' Jesus responded: 'Go shew yourselves unto the priests.' As they went their way, they were
cleansed. One returned, fell on his face at the Master's feet, and gave
thanks. Jesus said, 'Were
there not ten cleansed? but where are the nine? And then the Lord said
to the one who returned, Arise, go thy way: thy faith hath made thee
whole' (see Luke 17:12-19). In
becoming a whole person, the grateful leper was healed inside as well
as on the outside. That day nine lepers were healed skin deep, but only
one had the faith to be made whole. The tenth leper ... [was] changed eternally
by [his] faith in the
Savior and the healing power of his atonement." - Merrill
J. Bateman, "The Power to Heal from Within," Ensign (CR), May 1995, p.13
7/7/09
“Parents, take time in the next home evening to caution your family
never to amuse themselves at the expense of the handicapped or of any
whose face or form or personality does not fit the supposed ideal or
whose skin is too light or too dark to suit their fancy. Teach them
that they, in their own way, should become like angels who "move the
water," healing a spirit by erasing loneliness, embarrassment, or
rejection.” - Boyd K. Packer, “The Moving of
the Water,” Ensign (CR), May 1991, p. 7
5/5/10
"The only one who can accomplish
the healing of
a sick soul is
the Great Physician Himself, our Father in Heaven, through His Son,
Jesus Christ. Jesus promised those who will come to Him with full
purpose of heart and repent: "I shall heal them" (3 Ne. 18:32). The
Church cannot heal; priesthood leaders do not heal; only an omnipotent
God can accomplish the miracle of spiritual healing." - Malcolm S. Jeppsen, "A Divine Prescription
for Spiritual Healing," Ensign (CR), May 1994, p. 17
8/17/10
"Faith is essential for healing by the powers of heaven. The Book
of Mormon even teaches that 'if there be no faith among the children of
men God can do no miracle among them' (Ether 12:12). In a notable talk
on administering to the sick, President Spencer W. Kimball said: 'The
need of faith is often underestimated. The ill one and the family often
seem to depend wholly on the power of the priesthood and the gift of
healing that they hope the administering brethren may have, whereas the
greater responsibility is with him who is blessed. . . . The major
element is the faith of the individual when that person is conscious
and accountable. 'Thy faith hath made thee whole' [Matthew 9:22] was
repeated so often by the Master that it almost became a chorus.'" - Dallin H. Oaks, "Healing the Sick," Ensign (CR) May 2010
9/21/10
“[W]e
find healing and relief only when we bring ourselves to the feet of the
Great Physician, our Savior, Jesus Christ. We must lay down our weapons
of rebellion (and we each know what they are). We must lay down our
sin, vanity, and pride. We must give up our desires to follow the world
and to be respected and lauded by the world. We must cease fighting
against God and instead give our whole hearts to Him, holding nothing
back. Then He can heal us. Then He can cleanse us from the venomous
sting of sin.” - Patrick Kearon, "Come unto Me with Full Purpose of Heart, and I Shall Heal You,” Ensign (CR) October 2010