TrendZion

Passages drawn from the sermons and published works that carry this theme forward.

1. 1857·Amasa Lyman·Apostle
   I presume that there is not a soul that belongs to the Church of the Saints, here or elsewhere, that feels a living interest in the prosperity of Zion, but what would wish that they might be enabled to pursue a course of life that would secure to them this blessing—that our brethren, a part of ourselves, those that are united to us by the ties of the Gospel, are called to go abroad to face our enemies, to be exposed as they may be to the chances of death, can secure this blessing and get the blessing and protection of our Heavenly Father.
2. 1916·Orson F. Whitney·Apostle
   I bear you my testimony that this is the work of God. I know it, I know it. I know that God will help us in this work. I know that he is by us, if we will but call upon him and ask him to direct us, if we will live so that he can. He sometimes prompts us, and we go on headlong without heeding the prompting ; but he is near to help us. I know that the happiest time of our lives is when we are devoted to his work. God help us to be true to it while we are in this life. There is only one life, and we shall pass through this probationary state but once:
3. 1925·Anthony W. Ivins·Apostle
   I have made these introductory remarks, my brethren and sisters, in the hope that you may better understand the calling and responsibility which develops upon these men whom you sustain as the presiding authorities of the Church, to be prophets, seers and revelators to it.
4. 1948·J. Reuben Clark·Apostle
   The priesthood is an everlasting endowment. Some, at least, who have come to the earth had it before they came here. The Prophet Joseph said: "Every man who has a calling to minister to the inhabitants of the world was ordained to that very purpose
5. 1963·Spencer W. Kimball·Apostle
   The Lord said: "My sheep hear my voice . . ." (John 10:27). So do the little ones respond to their own mothers. The maid, the neighbor, the sister, the grandmother may clothe and feed and diaper the child, but no one can take the place of mother. This is impressed upon us by the story of the six-year-old who got lost from his mother in a large supermarket and began to call frantically, "Martha, Martha."
6. 1977·Bruce R. McConkie·Apostle
   After the Lord called his people Zion, the scripture says that Enoch “built a city that was called the City of Holiness, even Zion ”; that Zion “was taken up into heaven” where “God received it up into his own bosom”; and that “from thence went forth the saying, Zion is fled.” ( Moses 7:19, 21, 69 .)