2. "Our Father in Heaven understood that for us to make desired progress during our mortal probation, we would need to face difficult challenges. Some of these would be almost overpowering. He provided tools to help us be successful in our mortal probation. One set of those tools is the scriptures." -Elder Richard G. Scott (The Power of Scripture. October 2011 General Conference)
3. "Scriptures are like packets of light that illuminate our minds and give place to guidance and inspiration from on high. They can become the key to open the channel to communion with our Father in Heaven and His Beloved Son, Jesus Christ. "-Elder Richard G. Scott (The Power of Scripture. October 2011 General Conference)
4. "Great power can come from memorizing scriptures. To memorize a scripture is to forge a new friendship. It is like discovering a new individual who can help in time of need, give inspiration and comfort, and be a source of motivation for needed change." -Elder Richard G. Scott (The Power of Scripture. October 2011 General Conference)
5. "The scriptures enlarge our memory by helping us always to remember the Lord and our relationship to Him and the Father. They remind us of what we knew in our premortal life. And they expand our memory in another sense by teaching us about epochs, people, and events that we did not experience personally." -Elder D. Todd Christofferson (The Blessing of Scripture. April 2010 General Conference)
6. "None of us was present to see the Red Sea part and cross with Moses between walls of water to the other side. We were not there to hear the Sermon on the Mount, to see Lazarus raised from the dead, to see the suffering Savior in Gethsemane and on the cross, and we did not, with Mary, hear the two angels testify at the empty tomb that Jesus was risen from the dead. You and I did not go forward one by one with the multitude in the land Bountiful at the resurrected Savior’s invitation to feel the prints of the nails and bathe His feet with our tears. We did not kneel beside Joseph Smith in the Sacred Grove and gaze there upon the Father and the Son. Yet we know all these things and much, much more because we have the scriptural record to enlarge our memory, to teach us what we did not know. And as these things penetrate our minds and hearts, our faith in God and His Beloved Son takes root." -Elder D. Todd Christofferson (The Blessing of Scripture. April 2010 General Conference)
7. "The scriptures also enlarge our memory by helping us not forget what we and earlier generations have learned." -Elder D. Todd Christofferson (The Blessing of Scripture. April 2010 General Conference)
8. "In Tyndale’s day, scriptural ignorance abounded because people lacked access to the Bible, especially in a language they could understand. Today the Bible and other scripture are readily at hand, yet there is a growing scriptural illiteracy because people will not open the books." -Elder D. Todd Christofferson (The Blessing of Scripture. April 2010 General Conference)
9. "Immersion in the scriptures is essential for spiritual nourishment. The word of God inspires commitment and acts as a healing balm for hurt feelings, anger, or disillusionment." —Elder Quentin L. Cook, (Can Ye Feel So Now?, Ensign, November 2012)
10. "We need to ponder in the scriptures and in the words of living prophets. We need to make plans which are not only wishes but covenants. And then we need to keep our promises to the Lord. And we need to lift others by sharing with them the blessings of the Atonement which have come in our lives."—President Henry B. Eyring, (Help Them on Their Way Home", Ensign, May 2010)
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