ETERNAL LESSONS! (PT 2) I realized that the blessings offered in this sacred place [the Temple] provide help needed by every parent in raising children today. Patricia P. Pinegar (167th Annual General Conference) Another most significant way to enhance your capacity to understand and live eternal truth is through temple worship. Only by receiving the fullness of temple ordinances and living the covenants made there can you enter into the highest degree of glory and receive the greatest measure of happiness eternally. Temple attendance has a calming, settling, consoling influence that distills peace and contentment. The accompanying family history work to identify ancestors to receive those ordinances yields similar blessings. Richard G. Scott BYU Education Week, 19 August 1997 The calming influence of the temple also helps us receive answers to the practical challenges and decisions of our lives. President Ezra Taft Benson said: By virtue of the sacred priesthood in me vested,...I promise you that, with increased attendance in the temples of our God, you shall receive increased personal revelation to bless your life as you bless those who have died. CR, April 1987, p. 108 The seen and the unseen worlds are closely connected. One assists the other. Those who fail to partake of the privileges and blessings of temple work deprive themselves of some of the choicest gifts within the keeping of the Church. John A. Widtsoe (quoted by Boyd K. Packer in his book: The Holy Temple) Youll leave the temple better than you arrived. I promise. President Gordon B. Hinckley St. George Regional Conference, Nov. 14, 2002 (Deseret News excerpt) President Howard W. Hunter: Let us prepare every missionary to go to the temple worthily, and make that experience an even greater highlight than receiving the mission call. The things that we must do and not do to be worthy of a temple recommend are the things that ensure that we will be happy as individuals and as families. Let us truly be a temple-attending and temple-loving people...We should not go only for our kindred dead, but also for the personal blessings of temple worship, for the sanctity and the safety that are within those hallowed and consecrated walls. As we attend the temple, we learn more richly and deeply the purpose of life and the significance of the atoning sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ. Let us make the temple, together with temple worship and temple covenants and temple marriage, our ultimate earthly goal and the supreme mortal experience. Ensign, Feb. 1995, p. 5 We pray for you oh dear temple lovers in Zion, that your homes shall never lack the presence of God. Thou hath blessed!
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