“Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God. And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS. He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of… — James E. Talmage Copy Share Image
Prayer is the Lord's great sterilizer against the germs of spiritual disease. — James E. Talmage Copy Share Image
Our Lord's descent from the holy heights of the Mount of Transfiguration was more than a physical return from greater to lesser altitudes; it… — James E. Talmage Copy Share Image
We hear much nowadays as to the speculative ideas of men concerning the condition beyond the grave; but the admission that there is an… — James E. Talmage Copy Share Image
“His message delivered, Gabriel departed, leaving the chosen Virgin of Nazareth to ponder over her wondrous experience. Mary's promised Son was to be "The Only Begotten" of the Father in the flesh; so it had been both positively and abundantly predicted. True, the event was unprecedented; true also it has never been paralleled; but that the virgin birth would be… — James E. Talmage Copy Share
“The solemn testimonies of millions dead and of millions living unite in proclaiming Him as divine, the Son of the Living God, the Redeemer… — James E. Talmage Copy Share Image
Within the Gospel of Jesus Christ there is room and place for every truth thus far learned by man or yet to be made… — James E. Talmage Copy Share Image
No jot, iota, or tittle of the temple rites is otherwise than uplifting and sanctifying. In every detail the endowment ceremony contributes to covenants… — James E. Talmage Copy Share Image
Belief is in a sense passive, an agreement or acceptance only; faith is active and positive, embracing such reliance and confidence as will lead… — James E. Talmage Copy Share Image
“indeed but little is said of Him by secular historians of His time. Few and short as are the allusions to Him made by… — James E. Talmage Copy Share Image
“Here they [the Jaredites] became a flourishing nation; but, giving way in time to internal dissensions, they divided into factions, which warred with one… — James E. Talmage Copy Share Image
“We claim scriptural authority for the assertion that Jesus Christ was and is God the Creator, the God who revealed Himself to Adam, Enoch, and all the antediluvial patriarchs and prophets down to Noah; the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; the God of Israel as a united people, and the God of Ephraim and Judah after the disruption of… — James E. Talmage Copy Share
“We talk of independence. No man is independent. We are all interdependent; and we shall only rise as we carry others with us, and… — James E. Talmage Copy Share Image