IQB - Patriotism

We need to feel again what it means to be a citizen of the United States of America. We need to feel the thrill and sensation and have the swellings within our bosom about this country. The priesthood of God should be an example of patriotism and loyalty to our country. As I talk about the United States of America, each one should consider his homeland, his flag, and his country. The scriptures give us a description of a great, great soul when they describe Moroni. (Vaughn J. Featherstone, But Watchman, What of the Night?, Oct 1975 General Conference)

They built a bowery on Temple Square. They erected a flagpole 104 feet (32 m) tall. They made an enormous national flag 65 feet (20 m) in length and unfurled it at the top of this liberty pole.

It may seem puzzling, incredible almost beyond belief, that for the theme of this first celebration they chose patriotism and loyalty to that same government which had rejected and failed to assist them. What could they have been thinking of? If you can understand why, you will understand the power of the teachings of Christ. (Boyd K. Packer, The Test, Oct 2008 General Conference)

The United States of America has been great because it has been free. It has been free because it has trusted in God and was founded upon the principles of freedom set forth in the word of God. This nation has a spiritual foundation. To me, this land has a prophetic history. (Ezra Taft Benson, Watchman, Warn the Wicked, April 1973 General Conference)

Effort will be made to lull us away into a false security. Proposals will be and are being offered and programs sponsored that have wide appeal. Attractive labels are usually attached to the most dangerous programs, often in the name of public welfare and personal security. Again, let us not be misled.

Freedom can be killed by neglect as well as by direct attack. (Ezra Taft Benson, Watchman, Warn the Wicked, April 1973 General Conference) 

 As American citizens, as citizens of the nations of the free world, we need to rouse ourselves to the problems which confront us as great Christian nations. We must recognize that these fundamental, basic principles—moral and spiritual—lay at the very foundation of our past achievements. To continue to enjoy present blessings, we must return to these basic and fundamental principles. Economics and morals are both part of one inseparable body of truth. They must be in harmony. We need to square our actions with these eternal verities. (Ezra Taft Benson, Watchman, Warn the Wicked, April 1973 General Conference) 

I see copies of a poster series designed to teach of God’s hand in the founding of America. It was distributed and displayed in our chapels throughout the country. ...In homes across America beautiful lessons have been taught on the purpose and destiny of this land.   (L. Tom Perry, A Report on the Church’s Participation in America’s Bicentennial Celebration, October 1976) 

 

Every Latter-day Saint should love the inspired Constitution of the United States—a nation with a spiritual foundation and a prophetic history—which nation the Lord has declared to be his base of operations in these latter days. (Ezra Taft Benson, The Constitution - A Glorious Standard, April 1976 General Conference)

Constitutional government, as designed by the framers, will survive only with a righteous people. “Our Constitution,” said John Adams, first vice-president and second president, “was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” (John R. Howe, Jr., The Changing Political Thought of John Adams, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1966, p. 189.) (Ezra Taft Benson, The Constitution - A Glorious Standard, April 1976 General Conference) 

IQB - Priesthood

“The priesthood holds consummate power. It can protect you from the plague of pornography—and it is a plague—if you are succumbing to its influence. If one is obedient, the priesthood can show how to break a habit and even erase an addiction.”

Elder Boyd K. Packer, Cleansing the Inner Vessel , April 2010 General Conference

http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2010/10/cleansing-the-inner-vessel?lang=eng


Although you cannot see the power of the priesthood, you can feel it, and you can see the results of it. The priesthood can be a guiding and protecting power in your life. (Boyd K. Packer, The Aaronic Priesthood, Oct 1981 General Conference)


The fact that it is called the lesser priesthood does not diminish at all the importance of the Aaronic Priesthood. The Lord said it is necessary to the Melchizedek Priesthood. (See D&C 84:29.) Any holder of the higher priesthood should feel greatly honored to perform the ordinances of the Aaronic Priesthood, for they have great spiritual importance. (Boyd K. Packer, The Aaronic Priesthood, Oct 1981 General Conference)

The offices are a part of the priesthood, but the priesthood is greater than any of the offices within it.

The priesthood is yours forever unless you disqualify yourself through transgression.

When we are active and faithful, we begin to understand the power of the priesthood.  (Boyd K. Packer, The Aaronic Priesthood, Oct 1981 General Conference)

The doctrine of the priesthood is known only by personal revelation. It comes, line upon line and precept upon precept, by the power of the Holy Ghost to those who love and serve God with all their heart, might, mind, and strength. (See D&C 98:12.)  (Bruce R. McConkie, The Doctrine of the Priesthood, April 1982 General Conference) 

IQB- Scriptures

The holy scriptures are the word of God given to us for our salvation. The scriptures are essential in receiving a testimony of Jesus Christ and His gospel. (Robert D. Hales, Holy Scriptures: The Power of God unto Our Salvation, Oct. 2006 General Conference)


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)

IQB- Family

“In time, when the child is away from home and family, prayer can provide the shield of protection the parent will want so much for them to have.”

President Henry B. Eyring, Write Upon My Heart, October 2000 General Conference

http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2000/10/write-upon-my-heart?lang=eng

“The greatest faith we have will be within our homes as we remain strong in the trials and tribulations of parenthood.”

Elder Robert D. Hales, Our Duty to God: The Mission of Parents and Leaders to the Rising Generation, April 2010 General Conference

http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2010/04/our-duty-to-god-the-mission-of-parents-and-leaders-to-the-rising-generation?lang=eng

  “The home is the most important place to prepare the youth of today to lead the families and the Church of tomorrow.”

Elder M. Russell Ballard, Mothers and Daughters, April 2010 General Conference

http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2010/04/mothers-and-daughters?lang=eng

   “Keep praying. Those prayers will be heard and answered in the most unexpected hour. God will send aid to no one more readily than He will send it to a child—and to the parent of a child.”

Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, A Prayer For the Children, April 2003 General Conference

http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2003/04/a-prayer-for-the-children?lang=eng

  “Many of you have loved ones who are wandering off the path to eternal life. You wonder what more you can do to bring them back. You can depend on the Lord to draw closer to them as you serve Him in faith.”

President Henry B. Eyring, Come Unto Me, April 2013 General Conference

http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2013/04/come-unto-me?lang=eng

“What matters most is what lasts longest, and our families are for eternity.”

Elder M. Russell Ballard, What Matters Most is What Last Longest, October 2005 General Conference

http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2005/10/what-matters-most-is-what-lasts-longest?lang=eng

IQB - Virtue

“Recognize the good in others, not their stains.”

Elder Richard G. Scott, For Peace at Home, April 2013 General Conference

http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2013/04/for-peace-at-home?lang=eng

 

 

“As taught in this scripture [D&C 132:19], an eternal bond doesn’t just happen as a result of sealing covenants we make in the temple. How we conduct ourselves in this life will determine what we will be in all the eternities to come.”

Elder Robert D. Hales, The Eternal Family, October 1996 General Conference

http://www.lds.org/general-conference/1996/10/the-eternal-family?lang=eng

“A good marriage and good family relationships can be maintained through gentle, loving, thoughtful communication. Remember that often a glance, a wink, a nod, or a touch will say more than words.”

Elder M. Russell Ballard, Keeping Life’s Demands in Balance, April 1987 General Conference

http://www.lds.org/general-conference/1987/04/keeping-lifes-demands-in-balance?lang=eng

“I am satisfied that a happy marriage is not so much a matter of romance as it is an anxious concern for the comfort and well-being of one’s companion.”

President Gordon B. Hinckley, What God Hath Joined Together, April 1991 General Conference

http://www.lds.org/general-conference/1991/04/what-god-hath-joined-together?lang=eng

“Marriage is beautiful when beauty is looked for and cultivated.”

President Gordon B. Hinckley, What God Hath Joined Together, April 1991 General Conference

http://www.lds.org/general-conference/1991/04/what-god-hath-joined-together?lang=eng

“If couples contemplate often—with each other in the temple—sacred covenants will be better remembered and kept.”

Elder Russell M. Nelson, Nurturing Marriage, April 2006 General Conference

http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2006/04/nurturing-marriage?lang=eng

“To come to Zion, it is not enough for you or me to be somewhat less wicked than others. We are to become not only good but holy men and women.”

Elder D. Todd Christofferson, Come to Zion, October 2008 General Conference

http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2008/10/come-to-zion?lang=eng

“Nevertheless, as we pursue the cause of Zion, each of us should prayerfully consider whether we are doing what we should and all that we should in the Lord’s eyes with respect to the poor and the needy.”

Elder D. Todd Christofferson, Come to Zion, October 2008 General Conference

http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2008/10/come-to-zion?lang=eng