Parley Pratt
Parley P. Pratt was a prominent early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and a prolific writer whose works significantly contributed to the theological and cultural foundations of Mormonism. Born in New York, Pratt was deeply influenced by the religious fervor of his time, eventually becoming one of the first converts to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He played a crucial role in the church's expansion, serving as a missionary and helping to establish communities in various regions, including the American West. His commitment to the faith was evident not only in his leadership but also in his literary contributions, which included writings on doctrine, history, and personal experiences.
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View all 10 quotes“The gift of the Holy Ghost...quickens all the intellectual faculties, increases, enlarges, expands, and purifies all the natural passions and affections, and adapts them, by the gift of wisdom, to their lawful use. It inspires, develops, cultivates, and matures all the fine-toned sympathies, joys, tastes, kindred feelings, and affections of our nature. It inspires virtue, kindness, goodness, tenderness, gentleness, and charity. It develops beauty of person, form, and features. It tends to health, vigor, animation, and social feeling. It invigorates all the faculties of the physical and intellectual man. It strengthens and gives tone to the nerves. In short, it is, as it were, marrow to the bone, joy to the heart, light to the eyes, music to the ears, and life to the whole being.””
“I have seen ministers of justice, clothed in magisterial robes and criminals arraigned before them, while life was suspended on a breath in the courts of England; I have witnessed a congress in solemn session to give laws to nations;...but dignity and majesty have I seen but once, as it stood in chains at midnight, in a dungeon, in an obscure village of Missouri.””
“The mission of the Holy Ghost is to partake of the things of the Father and the Son and teach them unto those who have received the gift of the Holy Ghost by the laying on of hands. He guides the true disciples in all truth, shows them things to come, reveals the past and makes known the hidden treasures of the kingdom of God.””
