[Teachldsseminary] quotes on scripture mastery

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Thanks to everyone who sent me quotes etc about SM  You are life savors!!!!!!!

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From: "Don & Dee Yeager" <dyeager1 at cableone.net> 

> 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 
> 
> *********************** 
> "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) 
> 
> *********************** 
> "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? 
> 
> *********************** 
> "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 
> 
> 
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