All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit.

I have an incredible confidence in the resilience of the human spirit and the creative ability of the Holy Spirit. So, if you can get people asking the right questions, it really will start moving in the right direction.

When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.

I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death?

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

The Holy Spirit knows what a particular age's most pressing need is far better than men with their programs.

Revelation does not mean man finding God, but God finding man, God sharing His secrets with us, God showing us Himself. In revelation, God is the agent as well as the object.

The man who has been taught by the Holy Spirit will be a seer rather than a scholar. The difference is that the scholar sees and the seer sees through; and that is a mighty difference indeed.

I'll tell you what: I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it.

Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a small flashlight of curiosity into the dark room of the world.

It is so important to see that we are all converted, that we have in our hearts a conviction concerning this great work. It is not a matter of the head only. It is a matter of the heart. It is being touched by the Holy Spirit until we know that this work is true, that Joseph Smith was verily a prophet of God, that God lives and that Jesus Christ lives and that they appeared to the boy Joseph Smith, that the Book of Mormon is true, that the priesthood is here with all of its gifts and blessings.

Sometimes you have to shove all the surface stuff to the side in order to see what's underneath.