Some people focus on “how hard it is to live the gospel.” “It’s not living the gospel that’s hard. It’s life that hard. It’s picking up the pieces when covenants have been compromised or values violated that’s hard. The gospel is the Good News that provides us with the tools to cope with the mistakes and miscalculations, the heartaches and heartbreaks, the pressures and disappointments we can expect to experience here in mortality.”
Sherri Dew
No Doubt About It, Page 106
The Holy Ghost enlarges our minds, our hearts, and our understanding; helps us subdue weaknesses and resist temptation; inspires humility and repentance; guides and protects us in miraculous ways; and gifts us with wisdom, divine encouragement, peace of mind, patience, a desire to change, and the ability to differentiate between the philosophies of men and revealed truth.”
Sherri Dew
No Doubt About It, Page 109
“No mortal comfort can duplicate that of the Comforter.”
Sherri Dew
No Doubt About It, Page 109
“The Lord places no limits on our access to Him. But we, unfortunately, often do. We limit ourselves when we sin; when we are lazy spiritually; when we get so busy that we are doing little more than going through one frenetic, frenzied day after another; when we fail to ask and seek.”
Sherri Dew
No Doubt About It, Page 109
“Consider just a few of the gifts we receive from the Holy Ghost. First and foremost, the Holy Ghost testifies of Christ. The presence of this gift is foundational to our faith, for our testimonies begin and are subsequently enlarged by witnesses of the Spirit that Jesus is the Christ. The Holy Ghost also helps us acknowledge and overcome our weakness (see Ether 12:27); prompts us to repent (see Moses 5:14); teaches us all things (see John 14:26); inspires charity and love; prompts, warns, and guides us (see D&C 8:2-4); helps us forgive—ourselves as well as others; heals relationships and tempers emotions; warns and guides us; helps us comprehend things we will never understand on our own; increases discernment and enables us to receive personal revelation (see D&C 11:13-14); inspires tenderness and humility; strengthens us during trials and brings comfort and peace; enhances any natural abilities we have; helps us obey; enlightens our minds and fills our souls with joy (see D&C 11:13); enables us to teach and testify (see 2Nephi 33:1); helps us detect deception and identify truth; and even makes us more beautiful, as Parley P. Pratt suggested (see Key to the Science of theology, 61). (That last one alone ought to catch our attention.)
Sherri Dew
No Doubt About It, Page 113
“The Savior taught, “Blessed are all they who do hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled with the Holy Ghost” (3 Nephi 12:6; emphasis added). Hungering and thirsting translate so sheer spiritual labor.
Sherri Dew
No Doubt About It, Page 115
“The gift of the Holy Ghost…quickens all the intellectual faculties, increases, enlarges, expands, and purifies all the natural passions and affections; and adapts them, by the gift of wisdom, to their lawful use. It inspires, develops, cultivates and matures all the fine-toned sympathies, joys, tastes, kindred feelings, and affections of our nature. It inspires virtue, kindness, goodness, tenderness, gentleness, and charity. It develops beauty of person, form and features. It tends to health, vigor, animation, and social feeling. It invigorates all the faculties of the physical and intellectual man. It strengthens, and gives tone to the nerves. In short, it is, as it were, marrow to the bone, joy to the heart, light to the eyes, music to the ears, and life to the whole being.”
Elder Parley P. Pratt
Key to the Science of Theology
“There is no price too high… no sacrifice too great, if out of it all we… enjoy the gift of the Holy Ghost”
Elder Bruce R. McConkie
A New Witness of the Articles of Faith, 253
“When you are filled with the Spirit of God, and the Holy Ghost rests upon you…do you have any trials? I do not think you do. For that satisfies and fills up every longing of the human heart, and fills up every vacuum. When I am filled with that spirit my soul is satisfied; and I can say, in good earnest, that the trifling things of the day do not seem to stand in my way at all. But just let me loose my hold of that spirit and power of the Gospel, and partake of the spirit of the world, in the slightest degree, and trouble comes; there is something wrong. I am tried; and what will comfort me? You cannot impart comfort to me that will satisfy. Is it not our privilege to so live that we can have this constantly flowing into our souls?”
Eliza Snow
Woman’s Exponent, 15 September 1873 page 63
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