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1/18/02
"It is the individual testing time that I see approaching, so that it is
well to know the forces and the powers that are arrayed against us, and their
purposes, that we may close our ranks and fortify ourselves. Being forewarned we
should be forearmed, and I declare to you that every gospel principle which the
Church has received is calculated in its very nature to steel and armour us
against the assaults of the enemy of our souls." — Melvin J.
Ballard, "Struggle
for the Soul," New Era, Mar. 1984, p. 38
10/10/04
"But his interest in this world did not end when he had performed his great
sacrifice. He is the Savior of all men, no matter where or when they have lived
upon the earth. To his disciples at Jerusalem he said, 'And other sheep I have,
which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my
voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.' (John
10:16) It is generally agreed now that when he spoke those words there was a
mighty multitude of people living in this western world. He was their Savior and
knew of their existence." - Melvin J. Ballard, "Conference
Report," October 1936, Church of the Air Broadcast, p. 99
2/28/07
5/21/08
"O, my brethren and sisters, when I
think of what God has done for us in this daily temporal life of ours; in this
being that we have here, the clothing that we wear, the air we breathe, the food
to eat, and all are daily given as manifestations of the munificent gifts of
God. We think it was a wonderful thing that He sent manna down to feed Israel:
but every day we have as wonderful a miracle in the things that we have to
subsist upon in this world as the result of God's munificent gifts unto us. I
rejoice in the many things that He has done. Many people ask how they can trust
Him, and how they can believe in the Lord Jesus Christ when they have not seen
Him, or seen a miracle. You do not need to see Him. There is one thing, if He
had done no other that ought to bring forth such confidence in our hearts, and
trust in him, that we could not doubt His love for us. I refer to His most
precious of all gifts. I do not diminish any other gift of God to man, but I do
value above all other things the gift of His Son Jesus Christ to the world."
- Melvin J. Ballard, "Conference Report," October 1910, Overflow Meeting, p.82 -
84
3/1/09
"I doubt not that God lives. His
providence is over his Church and over the world, and a good time is coming. I
can see behind the dark clouds present, the silver lining of a better day, the
glorious consummation of those precious promises that have inspired the
utterances of the prophets of God from the beginning until this day, that this
is but preparation for the coming of the great Son of God to live upon the
earth."
- Melvin J. Ballard, "Conference Report," April 1917,
Second Overflow Meeting, p.120
4/15/09
"The world has riches beyond anything we have, but we have the one precious
thing that they do not have, and it is worth more than all other things in the
world—the saving principles, the priesthood, the virtue and the power of the
gospel of the Son of God. And that is the thing the world will desire more than
they want anything else, and they will come to it. Shall we be prepared to give
it to them? We will be, if we are wise; and this is the day when I say we ought
to set our houses in order, a day when we ought to repent. And if we need
chastisement, it will come to us, and sorrow will come to us, only for the
purpose of turning our hearts to the Lord in humility and faith to obtain and
maintain the blessings God has promised to the faithful." -
Melvin J. Ballard, “Conference Report,” April 1918, Second
Meeting—Outdoors, p.142
6/21/09
“We
have learned that the Lord has had in training, before they came into this
world, tried and tested individuals, even as he revealed to Abraham, to be his
leaders in the various dispensations—men whom he knew, prophets, statesmen, wise
men, and leaders for all nations. I am convinced also that when our Father sent
these leaders into the world he did not send them alone. He sent, in connection
with them, hosts of other tried souls who would be helps to those who were
selected of the Lord to be his leaders. I believe, therefore, that when the time
came for the birth into the world of the chosen prophet, Joseph Smith, who was
selected before he came into the world to be the prophet of this last
dispensation, he did not come alone, but there came with him men and women like
unto himself, tried souls. God knew them. He held them in reserve for ages,
until this day should dawn.” - Melvin J. Ballard,
“Conference Report,” October 1920, Third Day—Morning Session, p. 77
9/16/09
“As
we followed President Smith, let us follow our leader today. He is the spokesman
of the Lord. The Lord has his program to work out: and so far as I am concerned,
and I hope it shall be true of every member of this Church, we shall be willing
to listen to the voice of the leader today. All honor to the leaders of the
past. They filled their niche, their place, their station, completed their work.
But the work of God is not finished in the earth. It has only partly completed
what God ordained it to do. And those of us who remain must seize the banner and
carry this work off victorious, to glorify the names of those who have been
identified with this work in the days that are past, and to receive honor and
place and position with them in the eternal world, and vindicate the word of our
Father in his blessings and promises to those who would enter into sacred
covenants to keep the commandments of the Lord.” -
Melvin J. Ballard, “Conference Report,” June 1919, Outdoor Meeting, p. 73
11/15/09
“Men
must have a true measuring rod to determine whether knowledge which comes to
them is true or false. They must have a true balance or rule that is always
reliable, always dependable, by which they can weigh or measure every particle
of information that comes to them. What will this rule be? I have discovered
that the sure action of my soul is the knowledge I have that God lives, that
Jesus is the Christ, and that our Father in heaven has spoken, that those truths
contained in the revelations of God in the Bible, Book of Mormon, and D&C, are
the very eternal truth. I have accepted them as my measuring rod, and I have not
accepted as the final truth anything that does not square up to those eternal
truths, that does not harmonize with the truth I have from God. Truth will
harmonize with itself. Let us adopt this standard when we go out into the world,
and seek the world's knowledge, its science, and everything pertaining to the
world and the world's work, and we shall be saved from shipwreck.” -
Melvin J. Ballard, “Conference Report,” April 1915, Second
Overflow Meeting, p. 59