Quotes on Temple Attendance:


I liked this quote because each of us know our own situations, and circumstances.  We must set our own goals according to our life and what it can allow for temple attendance.

"I encourage you to establish your own goal of how frequently you will avail yourself of the ordinances offered in our operating temples. What is there that is more important than attending and participating in the ordinances of the temple? What activity could have a greater impact and provide more joy and profound happiness than worshipping in the temple"? (Elder Richard G. Scott, How Can We Make the Most of Temple Attendance,General Conference, April 2009, http://www.lds.org/liahona/2012/03/how-can-we-make-the-most-of-temple-attendance?lang=eng&query=temple+attendance )

I chose this quote because it teaches me that the Lords teachings are symbolic and it is the same way in the temple.

"If you will go to the temple and remember that the teaching is symbolic, you will never go in the proper spirit without coming away with your vision extended, feeling a little more exalted, with your knowledge increased as to things that are spiritual. The teaching plan is superb. It is inspired. The Lord Himself, the Master Teacher, taught His disciples constantly in parables—a verbal way to represent symbolically things that might otherwise be difficult to understand".(Elder Boyd K. Packer, The Holy Temple, Ensign, Feb. 1995, http://www.lds.org/ensign/1995/02/the-holy-temple?lang=eng )

Blessings come to those that attend the temple.

"The Lord will bless us as we attend to the sacred ordinance work of the temples. Blessings there will not be limited to our temple service. We will be blessed in all of our affairs." (Elder Boyd K. Packer, The Holy Temple, Ensign, Feb. 1995, http://www.lds.org/ensign/1995/02/the-holy-temple?lang=eng )

Wearing the garment at all times has a profound influence on our life.

"The wearing of the temple garment bears great symbolic significance and represents a continuing commitment. Just as the Savior gave us an example of His ability to endure to the end, wearing the garment is one way we demonstrate enduring faith in Him and in His eternal covenants with us". (Elder Russell M. Nelson, Prepare for the Blessings of the Temple, Liahona 2010, http://www.lds.org/liahona/2010/10/prepare-for-the-blessings-of-the-temple?lang=eng&query=temple+attendance )

Temple attendance gets us closer to our goal of eternal life.

"If we are true and faithful in this life, we may obtain eternal life. Immortality is to live forever. Eternal life means more than simply being immortal. Eternal life is to gain exaltation in the highest heaven and live in the family unit. God declared that His grand mission statement—“my work and my glory”—is “to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.” His gift of immortality is unconditional—a free gift of salvation to all humankind. The possibility of eternal life—even exaltation—is available to us through our obedience to covenants made and ordinances received in holy temples of God" (Elder Russell M. Nelson, Prepare for the Blessings of the Temple, Liahona 2010, http://www.lds.org/liahona/2010/10/prepare-for-the-blessings-of-the-temple?lang=eng&query=temple+attendance )


Many blessings can come from attending the temple.

"When you attend the temple and perform the ordinances that pertain to the house of the Lord, certain blessings will come to you You will receive the spirit of Elijah, which will turn your heart to your spouse, to your children, and to your forebears.You will love your family with a deeper love than you have loved before.Your heart will be turned to your fathers, and theirs to you.You will be endowed with power from on high as the Lord has promised.You will receive the key of the knowledge of God. You will learn how you can be like Him. Even the power of godliness will be manifest to you. (See D&C 84:19–20.)You will be doing a great service to those who have passed to the other side of the veil. Your work will enable them to be “judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit” (President Spencer W. Kimball, Come to the Temple, Liahona, June 1992, http://www.lds.org/liahona/1992/06/come-to-the-temple?lang=eng&query=temple+attendance )

To me there is nothing that bonds families together more than through temple blessings.

 "There is nothing that … will come into your family as important as the sealing blessings. There is nothing more important than honoring the marriage and family covenants you … will make in the temples of God".(President Henry B. Eyring, A Focus on Faith, New Era 2012 http://www.lds.org/new-era/2012/05/general-conference-is-for-you/a-focus-on-faith?lang=eng&query=temple+blessings )

I had to include this quote because my wedding anniversary is April 3rd.

"Imagine my surprise and delight when the father told me in church that the sealing is set for April 3. That was the day in 1836 when Elijah, the translated prophet, was sent to the Kirtland Temple to give the sealing power to Joseph Smith and to Oliver Cowdery. Those keys reside in the Church today and will continue to the end of time". (President Henry B. Eyring, Families under Covenant, General Conference, April 2012, http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2012/04/families-under-covenant?lang=eng&query=temple+blessings)

 The covenants that we make in the temple need to be nourished and observed throughout our entire marriage.

"When a couple is kneeling at the altar, as a sealer I am aware of my role as a representative of the Lord. I know that what is sealed on earth is literally sealed in heaven—never to be broken if those being sealed remain faithful and endure to the end.I have observed over the years many couples who have been able to maintain strong and vital marriages as they remain true to the covenants they take upon themselves in the temple". (Elder Robert D. Hales, Blessings of the Temple, BYU Devotional, Nov. 2005, http://www.lds.org/ensign/2009/10/blessings-of-the-temple?lang=eng )

Attending the temple can bring more joy to our life because we are living the commandments.

" It may appear to you at times that those out in the world are having much more fun than you are. Some of you may feel restricted by the code of conduct to which we in the Church adhere. My brothers and sisters, I declare to you, however, that there is nothing which can bring more joy into our lives or more peace to our souls than the Spirit which can come to us as we follow the Savior and keep the commandments. That Spirit cannot be present at the kinds of activities in which so much of the world participates. The Apostle Paul declared the truth: “The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.” The term natural man can refer to any of us if we allow ourselves to be so". (President Thomas S. Monson, Stand in Holy Places, General Conference, Oct 2011,http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2011/10/stand-in-holy-places?lang=eng&query=temple+blessings )