"If you want the mind and will of God … , get it, it is just as much your privilege as of any other member of the Church and Kingdom of God. It is your privilege and duty to live so that you know when the word of the Lord is spoken to you and when the mind of the Lord is revealed to you. I say it is your duty to live so as to know and understand all these things."
President Brigham Young (1801–77), Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Brigham Young (1997), 68.
Illustrations by Greg Newbold
Portrait of Brigham Young by Dan Weggeland, courtesy of Church History Museum
See Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph Smith (2007), 132.
2.Bruce R. McConkie, A New Witness for the Articles of Faith (1985), 253.
3.Teachings: Joseph Smith, 132.
4.Boyd K. Packer, "The Cloven Tongues of Fire," Liahona, July 2000, 10; Ensign, May 2000, 8.
5.Boyd K. Packer, "Reverence Invites Revelation," Ensign, Nov. 1991, 21.
6.Thomas S. Monson, "The Spirit Giveth Life," Liahona and Ensign, June 1997, 4.
7.Richard G. Scott, "To Acquire Spiritual Guidance," Liahona and Ensign, Nov. 2009, 6–7.