Truth

Truth

Boyd K. Packer

There is a temptation for the writer or the teacher of Church history to want to tell everything, whether it is worthy or faith promoting or not. Some things that are true are not very useful … The writer or the teacher who has an exaggerated loyalty to the theory that everything must be told is laying a foundation for his own judgment. He should not complain if one day he himself receives as he has given. Perhaps that is what is contemplated in having one’s sins preached from the housetops.

Boyd K. Packer, http://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2055&context=byusq

It is not unusual to have a missionary say, “How can I bear testimony until I get one? How can I testify that God lives, that Jesus is the Christ, and that the gospel is true? If I do not have such a testimony, would that not be dishonest?” Oh, if I could teach you this one principle: a testimony is to be found in the bearing of it!

Boyd K. Packer. Candle of the Lord. 25 June 1982

Henry B. Eyring

I do best in discerning that it not just my want when in fact, I feel a feeling of peace… I’ll feel better if I feel its consistent with loving the Saviour and loving the Saviour’s prophets.

Henry B. Eyring. Face to Face with President Eyring and Elder Holland. March 4, 2017

Dallin H. Oaks

“I suggest that research is not the answer,”

Dallin H. Oaks, devotional for young married couples in downtown Chicago, Illnesses, February 2, 2019

Not everything that’s true is useful.

Dallin H. Oaks, http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/elder-oaks-interview-transcript-from-pbs-documentary

Another way to seek a testimony seems astonishing when compared with the methods of obtaining other knowledge. We gain or strengthen a testimony by bearing it. Someone even suggested that some testimonies are better gained on the feet bearing them than on the knees praying for them.

Dallin H. Oaks, Testimony, General Conference, April, 2008

Russell M. Nelson

Important as truth is, often we need truth and more.

Russell M. Nelson, Truth—and More, Brigham Young University on 27 August 1985.

Some truths are best left unsaid.

Russell M. Nelson, Truth—and More, Brigham Young University on 27 August 1985.

To anyone who, because of “truth,” may be tempted to become a dissenter against the Lord and his anointed, weigh carefully your action…

Russell M. Nelson, Truth—and More, Brigham Young University on 27 August 1985.