More Quotes from
Church Leaders
The
Sacrament
"I need the sacrament.
I need to renew my covenant every week. I need the blessing that comes
with and through it. I know that what I am talking about is true. I bear
witness to you that I know that the Lord lives. I know that He has
made this sacrifice and this atonement. He has given me a foretaste of
these things....
"I know that He
lives, and I know that through Him men must find their salvation, and that
we cannot ignore this blessed offering that He has given us as the means
of our spiritual growth to prepare us to come to Him and be justified....
"Go to the sacrament
table. Ah, that is a blessed privilege that I now rejoice in, and I would
be ashamed, I know,... to stand in His presence and try to offer any apology
or any excuse for not having kept His commandments and honored Him by bearing
witness, before the Father and before men, that I believe in Him, and that
I take upon me His blessed name, and that I live by and through Him spiritually."
Melvin J. Ballard
"If we approach
the sacrament each week in the attitude of actively bringing a personal,
specific offering – a humble promise to conquer a weakness that is separating
us from the Savior – the sacrament will take on an infinitely richer meaning
to our lives. Our relationship to Christ will grow and deepen as we make
and keep such promises, and thereby progress in honoring our sacramental
covenants."
W. Cole Durham,
Jr.
"To make a covenant
with the Lord to always keep His commandments is a serious obligation,
and to renew that covenant by partaking of the sacrament is equally serious.
The solemn moments of thought while the sacrament is being served have
great significance. They are moments of self-examination, introspection,
self-discernment – a time to reflect and to resolve."
Howard W. Hunter