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11/11/06
"I have found repeated in different places in the scriptures two major
promises for reading and studying the scriptures that pertain to the next
life: one is exaltation, and the other is eternal life. For example, Nephi
said: 'Wherefore, if ye shall press forward, feasting upon the word of
Christ, and endure to the end, behold, … Ye shall have eternal life.' (
2 Ne. 31:20.)
"The surprising discovery was that most promises that come to us for reading
and studying the scriptures pertain to mortality. Three categories of
promises to consider are promises of power, promises of increase, and 'other
promises.'" - Jay E. Jensen, "'Remember
the Promises'," Ensign, November 1992
12/5/06
"Through studying and pondering the scriptures and the words of the
latter-day prophets, we can feast upon the words of Christ, and the words
will tell us all the things that we should do. (See
2 Ne. 32:3.) Then we
must nourish the word and allow it to take root. (See
Alma 32:41-43.)
After we hearken to the word and hold fast to it, we are promised that
temptations and the fiery darts of the adversary will not overpower us. (See
1 Ne. 15:24.) We will
be able to recognize the truth when we hear it just as the shepherds and the
Wise Men knew when they were told about the Saviors birth. The scriptures
are the word of God and a light to us and the world, and we can follow this
light as if they were our guiding star." - Betty Jo N. Jepsen, "By
Way of Invitation (Alma
5:62)," Ensign (CR), November 1992, p.76
3/2/09
"If our eternal salvation depends
upon our ability to understand the writings of Isaiah as fully and truly as
Nephi understood them—and who shall
say such is not the case!—how shall
we fare in that great day when with Nephi we shall stand before the pleasing
bar of him who said: "Great are the words of Isaiah" (3 Ne.
23:1)?
"To Laman and
Lemuel, the words of Isaiah were as a sealed book. The older brothers of
Nephi could read the words and understand the language written by Israel's
great seer, but as for envisioning their true prophetic meaning, it was with
them as though they read words written in an unknown tongue."
- Bruce R. McConkie, "Sermons and Writings of
Bruce R. McConkie", p.299
10/7/09
“Now in our efforts to
teach the word of the Lord we perhaps overlook the spirit, and we gradually
begin to draw away from the language of the scriptures and give our
instructions in our own language, any language which we believe will be most
suitable to the understanding of the children, until now we have ceased
almost wholly to memorize important passages of holy writ; and I suspect
that we have gone already too far in the other direction. We are too greatly
substituting or have been substituting explanations of the scriptures for
the scriptures themselves; and one idea that the brethren have is that the
children and also the older members in the theological class should drink
from the fountain head of inspiration as it comes to us direct from holy
writ, and not depart entirely from the original text for the information
which we desire to impart to the children.” - Joseph M. Tanner,
“Conference Report,” April 1901, Deseret Sunday School Union, p. 78