Thursday, May 16, 2024

Receiving a testimony line upon line

“When I as a boy first started out in the ministry, I would frequently go out and ask the Lord to show me some marvelous thing, in order that I might receive a testimony. But the Lord withheld marvels from me, and showed me the truth, line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little and there a little, until he made me to know the truth from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet, and until doubt and fear had been absolutely purged from me. He did not have to send an angel from the heavens to do this, nor did he have to speak with the trump of an archangel. By the whisperings of the still small voice of the Spirit of the living God, he gave to me the testimony I possess. And by this principle and power he will give to all the children of men a knowledge of the truth that will stay with them.”

- Joseph F. Smith, as quoted in https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/liahona/2024/04/come-follow-me/20-receiving-revelation-until-our-faith-in-the-lord-becomes-unshaken?lang=eng 

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