Monday, May 6, 2013

“The gift of the Holy Ghost … quickens all the intellectual faculties, increases, enlarges, expands and purifies all the natural passions and affections; and adapts them, by the gift of wisdom, to their lawful use. It inspires, develops, cultivates and matures all the fine-toned sympathies, joys, tastes, kindred feelings, and affections of our nature. It inspires virtue, kindness, goodness, tenderness, gentleness, and charity. It develops beauty of person, form and features. It tends to health, vigor, animation, and social feeling. It invigorates all the faculties of the physical and intellectual man. It strengthens, and gives tone to the nerves. In short, it is, as it were, marrow to the bone, joy to the heart, light to the eyes, music to the ears, and life to the whole being.”

- Parley P. Pratt, (Key to the Science of Theology, 9th ed. [1965], 101), as quoted by Elder L. Tom Perry Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in “That Spirit Which Leadeth to Do Good,” General Conference, Apr 1997
http://www.lds.org/general-conference/1997/04/that-spirit-which-leadeth-to-do-good?lang=eng

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