We must learn.

We must learn. February 5, 2016

 

Marion Duff Hanks
Elder Marion D. Hanks was a member of the First Council of the Seventy at the time this article was published.  (Wikimedia Commons)

 

“No one knows anything about Christ’s work simply by being born a member of the Church, and often he knows little about it after years of unmotivated exposure in meetings or classes. He must learn. And learning involves self-investment and effort. The Gospel should be studied ‘as carefully as any science.’ The ‘literature of the Church’ must be ‘acquired and read.’ Our learning should be increased in our spare time ‘day by day.’ Then as we put the gospel truth to work in daily life, we will never find it wanting. We will be literate in the most important field of knowledge in the universe, knowledge for lack of which men and nations perish, in the light of which men and nations may be saved.”

 

Marion D. Hanks, “Theological Illiterates,” Improvement Era (September 1969): 42

 

Thanks to Bruce Webster for bringing this quotation to my attention, from a blog entry by Robert Boylan.

 

 


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