[Teachldsseminary] quotes on scripture mastery

[Don & Dee Yeager]

This is a handout I have used:

WHY MEMORIZE SCRIPTURES??

"I suggest that you memorize scriptures that touch your heart 
and fill your soul with understanding. 
When scriptures are used as the Lord has caused them to be recorded,
they have intrinsic power that is not communicated 
when paraphrased."
Elder Richard G. Scott, 
October 1999 General Conference 

"I have discovered that many times you don't fully understand 
a scripture until you memorize it...
But that's not all.  By memorizing scripture
you show the Lord that you esteem his words to be of great value -
and then he will be more likely to speak to you and give you more."
Searching the Scriptures, Elder Gene R. Cook

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"When you memorize something, it becomes a part of you
and can be called upon at will to give you strength
when there seems to be no strength left."
Vaughn J. Featherstone
(The Aaronic Priesthood Holder and Athletics, New Era,  Sept. 1975, 28)

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"I have a vision of thousands of missionaries
going into the mission field
with hundreds of passages memorized from the Book of Mormon
so that they might feed the needs
of a spiritually famished world."
President Ezra Taft Benson
(Flooding the Earth with the Book of Mormon, Ensign, Nov. 1988, 6)
President Hinckley says our children should memorize at least one
scripture per week.  Do you accept the challenge?

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"May I suggest that in our family night gatherings we make it a project
to memorize one scripture citation a week pertinent to this work. At the
conclusion of a year our children will have on their lips a fund of
scripture which will remain with them throughout their lives."
  (Conference Report, April 1959; Teachings of Gordon B. Hinckley, p.
344; Gene R. Cook, Searching the Scriptures: Bringing Power to Your
Personal and Family Study,  p. 115). 


Dee  AZ