Begat Chat

I found a website, Winslow Farr Sr. & Organization, with Family History Quotes from many prophets of the LDS church. Here are a few I enjoyed.

"If the veil were lifted off the face of the Latter-day Saints and they could see and know the things of God as they do who are laboring for the salvation of the human family who are in the spirit world..., this whole people, with very few, if any, exceptions, would lose all interest in the riches of the world, and instead thereof their whole desires and labors would be directed to redeem their dead."

Discourses of Wilford Woodruff, p. 152

"Every father and mother has a great responsibility resting upon them to redeem their dead. Do not neglect it. You will have sorrow if you do. Any man will who neglects the redemption of his dead that he has power to officiate for here. When you get to the other side of the veil, if you have entered into these temples and redeemed your progenitors by the ordinances of the House of God, you will hold the keys of their redemption from eternity to eternity. Do not neglect this!"

-- Wilford Woodruff CR, p. 90, April 10, 1898

"The greatest responsibility in this world that God has laid upon us is to seek after our dead. The Apostle Paul says, "They without us cannot be made perfect,' for it is necessary that the sealing power should be in our hands to seal our children and our dead for the fullness of the dispensation of times -- a dispensation to meet the promises made by Jesus Christ before the foundation of the world for the salvation of man."

-- Joseph Smith

"I want to see the temple built in a manner that it will endure through the Millennium. This is not the only temple we shall build. There will be hundreds of them built and dedicated to the Lord. This temple will be known as the first temple built in the mountains by the Latter-day Saints. And when the Millennium is over, and all the sons and daughters of Adam and Eve, down to the last of their posterity, who come within the reach of the clemency of the gospel, have been redeemed in hundreds of temples through the administration of their children as proxies for them, I want that temple still to stand as a proud monument of the faith, perseverance and industry of the Saints of God in the mountains in the nineteenth century."

--Brigham Young, October 6, 1863, Journal of Discourses, 10:254

I find this last quote interesting, since the Sacramento Temple is the 124th temple to be built. I went through the open house last weekend and it is beautiful. It will be dedicated this Sunday and open for temple ordinances after Labor Day.