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Trial and Experience Necessary for Salvation

President Brigham Young taught,

“All intelligent beings who are crowned with crowns of glory, immortality, and eternal lives must pass through every ordeal appointed for intelligent beings to pass through, to gain their glory and exaltation. Every calamity that can come upon mortal beings will be suffered – to prepare them to enjoy the presence of the Lord. … Every trial and experience you have passed through is necessary for your salvation.”

Quoted, Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Spencer W. Kimball (2006), 15.

God Reveals to Man in His Own Language

President Brigham Young taught,

“The revelations of God contain correct doctrine and principle, so far as they go; but it is impossible for the poor, weak, low, groveling, sinful inhabitants of the earth to receive a revelation from the Almighty in all its perfections…If an angel should come to this congregation, or visit any individual of it, and use the language he uses in heaven, what would we be benefitted? Not any, because we could not understand a word he said. When angels come to visit mortals, they have to condescend to and assume, more or less, the condition of mortals, they have to descend to our capacities in order to communicate with us” (JD 2:314).

President George A. Smith (grandfather to George Albert Smith) taught,

“When the Lord reveals anything to men He reveals it in language that accords with their own. If any of you were to converse with an angel, and you used strictly grammatical language he would do the same. But if you used two negatives in a sentence the heavenly messenger would use language to correspond with your understanding…” (JD 12:335, Nov. 15, 1868).

 

The Influence of a Mother

Brigham Young taught,

It is the mother’s influence that is most effective in molding the mind of the child for good or for evil. If she treat lightly the things of God, it is more than likely her children will be inclined to do the same, and the Lord will not hold her guiltless when He comes to make up His jewels; He will disown all such when He comes to claim His own, and will say, Go hence, I never knew you.

(Brigham Young, JD 18:263)