I want to experience the Holy Ghost fully. Don't you? I assume we all do. What marvelous experiences we can have as we exercise faith and learn how to invite the fullness of this power, this fantastic gift, freely given, just because we chose to be baptized. I'm overwhelmed with gratitude and I appreciate this marvelous gift that is mine to use and magnify and enjoy or just let it fade away into silence.
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Elder LeGrand Richards, describing the gift of the Holy Ghost, said:
“To
me, the gift of the Holy Ghost is as important to man as sunshine and
water are to the plants. You take them away, and the plants would die.
You take the Holy Ghost out of this Church, and this Church would not be
any different than any other church. And it is manifest in so many ways
in the lives and the devotion of the members of the Church” (“The Gift
of the Holy Ghost,”Ensign, Nov. 1979, 76).
AND
Parley P. Pratt gave us a vision of what the gift of the Holy Ghost could mean to us when he said:
“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” (Key to the Science of Theology, 9th ed. [1965], 101).
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