As Lehi searched the plates, he learned what all of us learn by studying the scriptures:
Who we are.What we can become.Prophecies for us and for our posterity.The commandments, laws, ordinances, and covenants we must live by to obtain eternal life.And how we must live in order to endure to the end and return to our Heavenly Father with honor. (Robert D. Hales, Holy Scriptures: The Power of God unto Our Salvation, Oct. 2006 General Conference)
If the Savior were among us in the flesh today, He would teach us from the scriptures as He taught when He walked upon the earth. (Robert D. Hales, Holy Scriptures: The Power of God unto Our Salvation, Oct. 2006 General Conference)
While we have been about the work of anchoring ourselves to the scriptures, others have been busily cutting themselves loose from them. They have been drifting downstream, interpreting and revising the scriptures to agree with the philosophies of men. We, on the other hand, have been struggling upstream against the same current. We are determined to reach the headwaters of divine communication and revelation, to have it, as the Doctrine and Covenants demands, “that every man might speak in the name of God the Lord, even the Savior of the world.” (D&C 1:20.) (Boyd K. Packer, Scriptures, October 1982 General Conference)
Threads are wound into cords that bind together in our hands the sticks of Judah and of Ephraim—testaments of the Lord Jesus Christ. (Boyd K. Packer, Scriptures, October 1982 General Conference)
The scriptures come to us through the Holy Ghost and are not to be understood by man alone; they are not of any private interpretation. Then if we can believe the scriptures as they are written, we have many truths to present to the world that no one else in the world can understand. (Legrand Richards, Value of the Holy Scriptures, April 1976 General Conference)
I gave a copy of the Book of Mormon to the treasurer in the Presbyterian Church back in New Bedford, Massachusetts, when I was doing missionary work there. When he had about finished reading it, I said, “As you read that book, did it occur to you that anyone could have written the contents of that book to deceive people?”
“Oh,” he said, “Mr. Richards, when I read that book, I get the same spiritual uplift that I get when I read the New Testament.” (Legrand Richards, Value of the Holy Scriptures, April 1976 General Conference)
In your journey through life, you meet many obstacles and make some
mistakes. Scriptural guidance helps you to recognize error and make the
necessary correction. You stop going in the wrong direction. You
carefully study the scriptural road map. Then you proceed with
repentance and restitution required to get on the “strait and narrow
path which leads to eternal life.”
(Russell M. Nelson, Living by Scriptural Guidance, Oct 2000 General Conference)
