Boyd K. Packer

The atonement is the very root of Christian doctrine. You may know much about the gospel as it branches out from there, but if you only know the branches and those branches do not touch that root, if they have been cut free from that truth, there will be no life nor substance nor redemption in them. 

 

Boyd K. Packer, “The Mediator,” Ensign, May 1977, 54

Dallin H. Oaks

The reality of our total dependence upon Jesus Christ for the attainment of our goals of immortality and eternal life should dominate every teaching and every testimony and every action of every soul touched by the light of the gospel.  If we teach every other subject and principle with perfection and fall short on this one, we have failed in our most important mission.

Dallin H. Oaks, CES-SLC,  Feb 7, 1992

Harold B. Lee

Today ... it might well be said that the greatest miracles we see are not the healings of sick bodies but the miraculous changes that come into the lives of those who become members of the Church, as all missionaries will testify. The greatest strength of the Church is not the number of units we have, not the amount of tithing that is paid, nor the congregations, but the greatest strength is the united and fervent testimonies that are in the hearts of church members. And by that same token, we might say that the greatest weapon against all untruth, whether it be in science, so-called, or in the philosophies of the world, or in communism, or what not, the greatest weapon is the truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ, which preached in power will be a bulwark against these false ideas in the world today.

Harold B. Lee, Conference Report, April 1964