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1. “But this is not all; they had given themselves to much prayer,and fasting; therefore they had the spirit of prophesy, and the spirit of revelation, and when they taught, they taught with the power and authority of God.”

Thomas S. Monson, Come All Ye Sons of God, April 2013 General Conference https://www.lds.org

2. “Usually such references as are made are associated with some particular occasion or in connection with attempts to receive communications from God, as was the case of the fasting of Moses and Elijah.”

Howard W. Hunter, Fast Day, October 1985 General Conference https://www.lds.org

3. “Without prayer, fasting is not complete fasting; it’s simply going hungry.”

Joseph B. Wirthlin, The Law of the Fast, April 2001 General Conference https://www.lds.org

4. “The fast also helps us to feel humble and meek so that the Holy Ghost may more easily be our companion. By our fast, we both keep our covenant to care for others and we prepare to keep our covenant to bear testimony.”

Henry B. Eyring, Witnesses for God, October 1996 General Conference https://www.lds.org

5. “Fast and allow your children to fast once a month before the meeting in which they will partake of the Lord’s Supper, hear others bear testimony, and perhaps themselves feel prompted to testify.”

Henry B. Eyring, A Legacy of Testimony, April 1996 General Conference https://www.lds.org

6. “A fast offering is at least the cost of the two consecutive meals from which we fast each month. By not eating these two meals, we draw close to the Lord in humility and prayer and also participate in anonymous giving to bless our brothers and sisters all over the world.”

Robert D. Hales, Becoming Provident Providers Temporally and Spiritually, April 2009 General Conference https://www.lds.org

7.  “We don’t know much about the Mormon church, but we have learned a great deal about our friend; and we are fasting for him today.”

Thomas S. Monson, Building Your Eternal Home, April 1984 General Conference https://www.lds.org

8.  “I always marvel as I study the principles the Lord has designed for us to follow how simple they are in concept, how easy they are to administer, and how compliance always brings forth additional blessings.”

L. Tom Perry, The Law of the Fast, May 1986 General Conference https://www.lds.org

9. “From Malachi we read: “Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. … Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.” 

Thomas S. Monson, Be Thou an Example, October 1996 General Conference https://www.lds.org

10. “The law of the fast has three great purposes. First, it provides assistance to the needy through the contribution of fast offerings, consisting of the value of meals from which we abstain. Second, a fast is beneficial to us physically. Third, it is to increase humility and spirituality on the part of each individual.”

L. Tom Perry, The Law of the Fast, May 1986 General Conference https://www.lds.org

 

 

1.”Part of it was knowing that I was well on the Lord’s side of the line. Another part was the feeling that Satan’s influence was farther away. Mostly it was the reinforcement received by the spiritual power which was generated. We had the rich feeling that the spiritual “fullness of the earth” (D&C 59:16) was ours, as promised by the Lord in section 59 of the Doctrine and Covenants.”

2. “I would counsel all students, if they can, to arrange their schedules so that they do not study on the Sabbath. If students and other seekers after truth will do this, their minds will be quickened and the infinite Spirit will lead them to the verities they wish to learn.”

James E. Faust, The Lord’s Day, October 1991 General Conference https://www.lds.org

3. “As we consider the pattern of the Sabbath and the sacrament in our own lives, there appear to be three things the Lord requires of us: first, to keep ourselves unspotted from the world; second, to go to the house of prayer and offer up our sacraments; and third, to rest from our labors.”

4. “Brothers and sisters, in the latter days the adversary succeeds when we relax our commitment to the Savior, ignore His teachings in the New Testament and other scripture, and cease to follow Him.”

5. “When Sunday morning arrives, help them to be well rested, properly dressed, and spiritually prepared to partake of the emblems of the sacrament and receive the enlightening, edifying, ennobling power of the Holy Ghost.”

L. Tom Perry, The Sabbath and the Sacrament, April 2011 General Conference https://www.lds.org

6.  “No son was ever taught more effectively by his father than I was on that occasion. My father not only knew the truth—he lived it.”

Thomas S. Monson, Becoming Our Best Selves, October 1999 General Conference https://www.lds.org

7.”The Lord has given the Sabbath day for your benefit and has commanded you to keep it holy. Many activities are appropriate for the Sabbath. Bear in mind, however, that Sunday is not a holiday. Sunday is a holy day.”

Thomas S. Monson, That We May Touch Heaven, October 1990 General Conference https://www.lds.org

8. “This is the time we are to attend our regular meetings together, study the life and teachings of the Savior and of the prophets.”

9. “Other appropriate Sunday activities include (1) writing personal and family journals, (2) holding family councils, (3) establishing and maintaining family organizations for the immediate and extended family, (4) personal interviews between parents and children, (5) writing to relatives and missionaries, (6) genealogy, (7) visiting relatives and those who are ill or lonely, (8) missionary work, (9) reading stories to children, and (10) singing Church hymns.” 

L. Tom Perry, The Importance of the Family, April 2003 General Conference https://www.lds.org

10. “But not all great music nor all popular religious music meets the special criteria of the sacred music of worship, of the Sabbath, of revelation.”

Boyd K. Packer, Reverence Invites Revelation, October 1991 General Conference https://www.lds.org