Temples

• Psalms 24:3-5…Those that can enter the Temple (clean hands and a pure heart).  Not lifted up to vanity, nor sworn deceitfully
• Alma 7:21…God can’t dwell in unholy temples, neither can filthiness or anything unclean is received in the kingdom of God.
• 3 Nephi 25:5-6…Elias will turn hearts of children to Fathers (& vice versa)
• 1 Cor. 3:16-17…The body is a Temple, don’t defile it
• 1 Nephi 18:3…We should go to the Temple oft and pray oft
• 2 Nephi 12:2…Temple will be on mounts in last days and all will go there
• “Followers of Christ are invited to “gather,” “stand in holy places,” and “be not moved” (Doctrine and Covenants 45:32; 87:8; 101:22; see also 2 Chronicles 35:5; Matthew 24:15). These holy places include temples, homes, and chapels. The presence of the Spirit and the behavior of those within these physical structures are what make them “holy places.” Families and the Church in God’s Plan Handbook 2: Administering the Church
• “Those who live the celestial principles found in the scriptures give comfort to those who suffer. They bring joy to those who are depressed, direction to those who are lost, peace to those who are distressed, and sure guidance to those who seek the truth.” Enrique R. Falabella, April 2013 General Conference
• 2 Nephi 16:1,5…In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. 5 Then said I: Wo is unto me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips; and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of Hosts.
•  Book of Mormon, Mosiah 2:36-37…Those things that we are taught by the Spirit guide us in wisdom’s path to be blessed, prospered and preserved, and if we go contrary to what we’ve been taught it is open rebellion to God and a sign of obedience to the evil spirit.  We would also become enemies to all righteousness and the Lord will have not to place for us to dwell because of our “unholy temple”.
• “An estimated 6,000 Latter-day Saints received temple ordinances before the exodus from Nauvoo. President Brigham Young (1801–77) said, “Such has been the anxiety manifested by the saints to receive the ordinances [of the temple], and such the anxiety on our part to administer to them, that I have given myself up entirely to the work of the Lord in the Temple night and day, not taking more than four hours sleep, upon an average, per day, and going home but once a week.” 4 The strength and power of temple covenants fortified the Saints as they left their city and temple for a journey into the unknown.” Brigham Young
• “Nephi-like, might we ask ourselves, what do our children know? From us? Personally? Do our children know that we love the scriptures? Do they see us reading them and marking them and clinging to them in daily life? Have our children ever unexpectedly opened a closed door and found us on our knees in prayer? Have they heard us not only pray with them but also pray for them out of nothing more than sheer parental love? Do our children know we believe in fasting as something more than an obligatory first-Sunday-of-the-month hardship? Do they know that we have fasted for them and for their future on days about which they knew nothing? Do they know we love being in the temple, not least because it provides a bond to them that neither death nor the legions of hell can break? Do they know we love and sustain local and general leaders, imperfect as they are, for their willingness to accept callings they did not seek in order to preserve a standard of righteousness they did not create? Do those children know that we love God with all our heart and that we long to see the face—and fall at the feet—of His Only Begotten Son? I pray that they know this.” Broken Things to Mend (Jeffrey R. Holland) Kindle Loc.193-201
• “The strength of your commitment is measured by your willingness to give your very lives for that in which you believe.” (Gordon B. Hinckley, Ensign, May 2003, 80)
• “Enter this door as if the floor…were gold, and every wall of jewels all of wealth untold; as if a choir in robes of fire were singing here; nor shout, nor rush, but hush…for God is here.” (Orson F. Whitney, Ensign, Jan. 1977, 7)
• (1 Ths. 2:12) “I encourage you to take time each week to be by yourself… Take an honest look at your life. Evaluate where you stand with the promises you have made with Heavenly Father…. When all is said and done, …only you know if you are living true to your covenants made with God.” (M. Russell Ballard, Church News, 18 Oct. 2008, 16)
• “If we succeed in passing through the approaching fiery ordeals with our fidelity and integrity unimpeached, we may expect at the close of our trials, a great and mighty outpouring of the Spirit and power of God—a great endowment upon all who shall have remained true to their covenants.” Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Lorenzo Snow
• Mosiah 5: 9-10…By being righteous, you will be called by the name of Christ.  Those that do not take upon him the name of Christ must be called by some other name and will be on the left hand of God instead of the right
•  “The Savior will come and will honor his people. Those who are spared and prepared will be temple-loving people. They will know Him… Let us prepare them (our children) with the faith to surmount every trial and every condition. We will do it in these holy, sacred temples. Come, come, oh come…to the temples of the Lord and abide in His presence.” (Vaughn J. Featherstone, General Conference, Apr. 1987)
• Jacob, Chapter 2:2…Now, my beloved brethren, I, Jacob, according to the responsibility which I am under to God, to magnify mine office with soberness, and that I might rid my garments of your sins, I come up into the temple this day that I might declare unto you the word of God.
• Jacob 2:11…Wherefore, I must tell you the truth according to the plainness of the word of God. For behold, as I inquired of the Lord, thus came the word unto me, saying: Jacob, get thou up into the temple on the morrow, and declare the word which I shall give thee unto this people.
• D&C 128:15…And now, my dearly beloved brethren and sisters, let me assure you that these are principles in relation to the dead and the living that cannot be lightly passed over, as pertaining to our salvation. For their salvation is necessary and essential to our salvation, as Paul says concerning the fathers—that they without us cannot be made perfect—neither can we without our dead be made perfect.
• “Your commitment to follow the Savior by making covenants with Him and then keeping those covenants will open the door to every spiritual blessing and privilege available to men, women, and children everywhere…The end for which each of us strives is to be endowed with power in a house of the Lord, sealed as families, faithful to covenants made in a temple that qualify us for the greatest gift of God- that of eternal life” As We Go Forward Together, Ensign, Apr. 2018, 7
• “Whether you need to put your personal life in order to obtain a temple recommend or whether you are just careless about this work and have allowed worldly matters to take precedence-whatever the reason, be moved to make the change. Firmly resolve now that you will do everything you can do to aid temple work and the genealogical work that supports it and to assist every living soul and every soul beyond the veil in every way you can with every every resource at your disposal.” The Holy Temple, Boyd K. Packer
• “I go on to mention another revealed truth. We are told that God is no respecter of persons, and yet, in no other church of which I am aware, is provision made for those beyond the veil of death to receive every blessing which is afforded the living. The great doctrine of salvation for the dead is unique to this Church. The dead are given the same opportunity as the living. Again, what a glorious and wonderful provision the Almighty has made through His revelation to His Prophet.” Manual, Teachings of the President of the Church: Gordon B Hinckley, Chapter 1 Restoration of the Gospel the Dawning of a Brighter Day