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(1/21/04)
"Lehi and his family knew something of the perils of the wilderness.
Indeed, for Lehi, life was a wilderness. He and his family also knew something
of the lifesaving qualities of a reliable compass. The Liahona provided their
direction through the desert. Its directing capability came not from a magnetic
field but rather 'according to the faith and diligence and heed' (1 Ne. 16:28) which Lehi and
his family gave to the directions that appeared on this compass." - Lance
B. Wickman, "Of
Compasses and Covenants," Ensign, June 1996, p. 38
5/10/08
"We really are immortal in the sense
that Christ’s Atonement conquers death, both physical and spiritual. And
provided we have so lived Today that we have claim on the Atonement’s
cleansing grace, we will live forever with God. This life is not so much a time
for getting and accumulating as it is a time for giving and becoming. Mortality
is the battlefield upon which justice and mercy meet. But they need not meet as
adversaries, for they are reconciled in the Atonement of Jesus Christ for all
who wisely use Today." - Lance B. Wickman, "Today,"
General Conference, April 2008
10/8/08
"It
remains only for you and me to both seek and tender that
forgiveness—to both repent and to extend charity to others—which enables us to
pass through the door the Savior holds open, thus to cross the threshold from
this life into exaltation. Today is the day to forgive others their
trespasses, secure in the knowledge that the Lord will thus forgive ours. As
Luke significantly recorded, “Be ye therefore merciful” (Luke
6:36; emphasis added). Perfection may elude us
here, but we can be merciful. And in the end, repenting and forgiving are among
God’s chief requirements of us." - Lance B.
Wickman, "Today," Ensign, May 2008
3/21/10
“Still, we mortals quite naturally want to know the why. Yet, in pressing too
earnestly for the answer, we may forget that mortality was designed, in a manner
of speaking, as the season of unanswered questions. Mortality has a different,
more narrowly defined purpose: It is a proving ground, a probationary state, a
time to walk by faith, a time to prepare to meet God (see, for example, Abr.
3:24-25; 2 Ne. 31:15-16, 20; Alma 12:24; Alma 42:4-13). It is in nurturing
humility (see Alma 32:6-21) and submissiveness (see Mosiah 3:19) that we may
comprehend a fulness of the intended mortal experience and put ourselves in a
frame of mind and heart to receive the promptings of the Spirit. Reduced to
their essence, humility and submissiveness are an expression of complete
willingness to let the ‘why’ questions go unanswered for now, or perhaps even to
ask, ‘Why not?’ It is in enduring well to the end (see 2 Ne. 31:15-16; Alma
32:15; D&C 121:8) that we achieve this life’s purposes. I believe that
mortality’s supreme test is to face the ‘why’ and then let it go, trusting
humbly in the Lord’s promise that ‘all things must come to pass in their time’
(D&C 64:32).” - Lance B. Wickman, “But If Not,” Ensign (CR), November 2002,
p. 30