“My knowledge is, if you will follow the teachings of Jesus Christ and his Apostles, as recorded in the New Testament, every man and woman will be put in possession of the Holy Ghost. . . . They will know things that are, that will be, and that have been. They will understand things in heaven, things on the earth, and things under the earth, things of time, and things of eternity, according to their several callings and capacities.” IfsKnowsMenHas BeensEarthJesusHeavenChristTeachingHolyCallingMen And WomenJesus ChristCapacityEternityPossessionEvery ManGhostTestamentNew TestamentApostlesHoly Ghost Author:Brigham Young
“The Lord created you and me for the purpose of becoming Gods like Himself; when we have been proved in our present capacity, and been faithful with all things He puts into our possession. We are created, we are born for the express purpose of growing up from the low estate of manhood, to become Gods like unto our Father in heaven. That is the truth about it, just as it is. The Lord has organized mankind for the express purpose of increasing in that intelligence and truth, which is with God, until he is capable of creating worlds on worlds, and becoming Gods, even the sons of God” WorldHas BeensPurposeFatherHeavenBornLordGrowing UpGrowingMankindSonBecomingCreatingCapableLowsCapacityAll ThingsPossessionFaithfulOrganizedEstatesManhoodOur FatherFather In HeavenBecoming GodCreating Worlds Book:The Essential Brigham Young Source: The Essential Brigham Young
“Friedrich Nietzsche predicted that secular people, losing touch with transcendence, would eventually lose a reference point from which to look down and judge themselves. In the end they would lose even the capacity to despise themselves. Thus, because of the 'death of God', they would confuse heaven with happiness, and happiness with health.” PeopleLooksEndsHeavenLosesJudgingLosingCapacityDown AndDespiseSecularTranscendence Author:Os Guinness
“No man's body is as strong as his appetites, but Heaven has corrected the boundlessness of his voluptuous desires by stinting his strength and contracting his capacities.” MenBodyDesirePassionStrongHeavenCapacityAppetiteVoluptuousContracting Author:John Tillotson
“Heaven is not a club we enter. Heaven is a state we attain, in accordance with our “capacity to receive” a blessed and sanctified nature.” StatesHeavenCapacityBlessedClubs Author:Terryl L. Givens