The Holy Ghost Opens Door to Knowledge of God

David B. Haight

The gift of the Holy Ghost is a priceless possession and opens the door to our ongoing knowledge of God and eternal joy. ("The Sacrament--and the Sacrifice," Ensign, Nov. 1989, p. 61)

David O. McKay

The Latter-day Saints have learned the truth that the everlasting gospel has been restored. And what does this knowledge bring to them? It brings to all who have honestly and sincerely obeyed the principles of repentance and baptism the gift of the Holy Ghost, which enlightens their minds, quickens their understanding, and imparts unto them a knowledge of Christ.

The Latter-day Saints have a guide, a help, a means to assist in their acquisition of truth, in their desire to know what their duty is, that the world does not possess. And this guide is necessary; man cannot find out truth-he cannot find out God by intellect alone. It has been said that no man can find out God by a microscope. Reason alone is not a sufficient guide in searching for truth. There is another, higher, more sure guide than reason.

That guide is faith-that principle which draws our spirit into communion with the higher Spirit which will bring all things to our remembrance, show us things to come, and teach us all things. To acquire that Spirit is the responsibility of the Latter-day Saint who would know truth. (Gospel Ideals, p.139)