Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Temple

1.     “As we enter through the doors of the temple, we leave behind us the distractions and confusion of the world.” President Thomas S. Monson April-2015 “Blessings of the Temple” link

2.     “I think there is no place in the world where I feel closer to the Lord than in one of His holy temples.”- President Thomas S. Monson, “The Holy Temple,” Ensign, Feb. 1995

3.     The way you feel in the temple is a pattern for how you want to feel in your life. By Elder Neil L. Andersen, Spiritual Whirlwinds, general Conference APRIL 2014

4.    "Do you young people want a sure way to eliminate the influence of the adversary in your life? Immerse yourself in searching for your ancestors, prepare their names for the sacred vicarious ordinances available in the temple, and then go to the temple to stand as proxy for them to receive the ordinances of baptism and the gift of the Holy Ghost. As you grow older, you will be able to participate in receiving the other ordinances as well. I can think of no greater protection from the influence of the adversary in your life.” Elder Scott Oct 2012, The Joy of Redeeming the Dead
5.     “In the temple, all are dressed in spotless white. “The symbolic purity of white likewise reminds us that God is to have a pure people.- Russell M. Nelson, Ensign October 2010

6.     "If you will go to the temple and remember that the teaching is symbolic, you will never go in the proper spirit without coming away with your vision extended, feeling a little more exalted, with your knowledge increased as to things that are spiritual. The teaching plan is superb. It is inspired. The Lord Himself, the Master Teacher, taught His disciples constantly in parables—a verbal way to represent symbolically things that might otherwise be difficult to understand".(Elder Boyd K. Packer, The Holy Temple, Ensign, Feb. 1995

7.     “My young friends who are in your teenage years, always have the temple in your sights. Do nothing which will keep you from entering its doors and partaking of the sacred and eternal blessings there.”-President Thomas S. Monson, “The Holy Temple—a Beacon to the World,” Ensign, May 2011

8.     “ I know your lives are busy. I know that you have much to do. But I make you a promise that if you will go to the house of the Lord, you will be blessed, life will be better for you.”- Gordon B. Hinckley, fireside, Lima, Peru, 9 Nov. 1996

9.     “Until you have received the sacred [temple] ordinances of the gospel, you have not received all of the wonderful blessings which this Church has to offer. The great and crowning blessings of membership in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are those blessings which come to us in the house of the Lord” President Gordon B. Hinckley, meeting, Worcester,Massachusetts, October 1998
10.   "Temple. One other word is equal in importance to a Latter-day Saint. Home. Put the words holy temple and home together, and you have described the house of the Lord!"- Boyd K Packer, The Temple, the Priesthood, APRIL 1993

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