Alma 37:37

"Counsel with the Lord in all thy doings, and he will direct thee for good; yea, when thou liest down at night lie down unto the Lord, that he may watch over you in your sleep; and when thou risest in the morning let thy heart be full of thanks unto God."

Heber J. Grant

"I am convinced that one of the greatest and one of the best things in all the world to keep a man true and faithful in the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, is to supplicate God secretly in the name of Jesus Christ, for the guidance of His Holy Spirit. I am convinced that one of the greatest things that can come into any home to cause the boys and girls in that home to grow up in a love of God, and in a love of the gospel of Jesus Christ, is to have family prayer." (Gospel Standards, p. 25).

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Colossians 1:21-23   

"And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight: if ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard."

Joseph F. Smith

"Many people have abandoned themselves to evil and have come to the conclusion that there is no chance for them. While there is life there is hope, and while there is repentance there is a chance for forgiveness; and if there is forgiveness, there is a chance for growth and development until we acquire the full knowledge of these principles that will exalt and save us and prepare us to enter into the presence of God the Father, who is the Father of our spirits, and who is the Father in the flesh, of His Only Begotten Son, Jesus Christ, who joined divine immortality with the mortal, welded the link between God and man, made it possible for mortal souls, on whom the sentence of death had been placed, to acquire eternal life, through obedience to his laws." (Gospel Doctrine, p. 27-28).

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Job 23:8-10  

"Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him: on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him: but he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold."

Lorenzo Snow

"The trials and temptations have been very great to many of our people, and more or less, perhaps to all of us. The Lord seems to require some proof on our part, something to show that He can depend upon us when He wants us to accomplish certain things in His interest. The reason is that the condition in which we will be placed in the future, as time passes along, as eternity approaches, and as we move forward in eternity and along the line of our existence, we shall be placed in certain conditions that require very great sacrifice in the interests of humanity, in the interests of the Spirit of God, in the interest of His children and our own children, in generations to come, in eternity" (The Teachings of Lorenzo Snow, p. 120).

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Wilford Woodruff

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Joseph Smith

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Doctrine and Covenants 128:24    

"Behold, the great day of the Lord is at hand; and who can abide the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appeareth? For he is like a refiner's fire, and like fuller's soap; and he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness. Let us, therefore, as a church and a people, and as Latter-day Saints, offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness; and let us present in his holy temple, when it is finished, a book containing the records of our dead, which shall be worthy of all acceptation."
    
Gordon B. Hinckley
    


"Missionary work is concerned with providing saving ordinances to our Father's living children throughout the world. Temple work is primarily concerned with service in behalf of the sons and daughters of God who have passed beyond the veil of death. God is no respecter of persons. If the living in all nations are deserving of the saving ordinances of the gospel, then those of all past generations must likewise be deserving" (The Teachings of Gordon B. Hinckley, p. 637).

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Psalm 24:3-5    

"Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place? He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully. He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation."
    
Howard W. Hunter 



"Let us be a temple-attending and a temple-loving people. Let us hasten to the temple as frequently as time and means and personal circumstances allow. Let us go not only for our kindred dead, but let us also go for the personal blessing of temple worship, for the sanctity and safety which is provided within those hallowed and consecrated walls. The temple is a place of beauty, it is a place of revelation, it is a place of peace. It is the house of the Lord. It is holy unto the Lord. It should be holy unto us" (The Teachings of Howard W. Hunter, p. 239)

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Isaiah 2:2-3  

"And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD'S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.  And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem."
   
Ezra Taft Benson 
 


"In the course of our visits to the temple, we are given insights into the meaning of the eternal journey of man.  We see beautiful and impressive symbolisms of the most important events---past, present, and future---symbolizing man's mission in relationship to God. We are reminded of our obligations as we make solemn covenants pertaining to obedience, consecration, sacrifice, and dedicated service to our Heavenly Father" (The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson, p. 251).

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Doctrine and Covenants 128:15
    
"And now, my dearly beloved brethren and sisters, let me assure you that these are principles in relation to the dead that cannot be lightly passed over, as pertaining to our salvation, as Paul says concerning the fathers---that they without us cannot be made perfect---neither can we without our dead be made perfect."

Spencer W. Kimball



"Isn't it a beautiful program, a selfless program whereby we do work for those who cannot do it for themselves? Baptism is a human and mortal experience, and to receive the Holy Ghost is an experience of mortality, and the sealing in the temple is a mortal experience. All are designed to prepare us for that long eternity. . . . So the program is this: we do our own work in the temple, then we do the work for the dead. We do not know for sure what those spirits are thinking, whether they will receive it or not, but we will do the work and put it in the bank for them so that if they get ready for it, they can withdraw it" (The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, p. 541).

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