You never totally move beyond faith as hope; it is not a box we check off and say, “I am done.” Rather, we begin again and gain experience with a new principle. It spirals upward as a helix, building and continuing. Here is how that occurs. We move from level of faith to level of faith through desire, a willingness to experiment and act, and then receiving a spiritual confirmation as evidence of things not seen. This process and experience bolster our faith. Consequently, we exhibit an increased willingness to experiment and receive an even greater confirmation. Our confidence waxes stronger, line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little and there a little.

Elder David A. Bednar | Presentation at BYU-Idaho

Topics: Faith, Hope, Intelligence, Knowledge

“The tuition of diligence and learning by faith must be paid to obtain and personally ‘own’ such knowledge.”

Elder David A. Bednar

Topics: Education, Faith, Knowledge

“Humility is essential to the acquiring of spiritual knowledge. To be humble is to be teachable. Humility permits you to be tutored by the Spirit and to be taught from sources inspired by the Lord, such as the scriptures. The seeds of personal growth and understanding germinate and flourish in the fertile soil of humility. Their fruit is spiritual knowledge to guide you here and hereafter.”

Richard G. Scott | Acquiring Spiritual Knowledge, Ensign Nov. 1993 pg 87

Topics: Humility, Knowledge

When we get to the other side of the veil, we shall know something. We now work by faith. We have the evidence of things not seen. The resurrection, the eternal judgment, the celestial kingdom, and the great blessings that God has given in the holy anointings and endowment in the temples, are all for the future, and they will be fulfilled, for they are eternal truths. We will never while in the flesh, with this veil over us, fully comprehend that which lies before us in the world to come. It will pay any man to serve God and to keep His commandments the few days he lives upon the earth.

Wilford Woodruff | Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Wilford Woodruff, p. 154

Topics: Faith, Knowledge, Resurrection

“Man is a spiritual being, a soul, and at some point of his life everyone is possessed with an irresistible desire to know his relationship to the infinite. There is something within him which urges him to rise above himself, to control his environment, to master the body and all things physical and live in a higher, more beautiful world.”

David O. McKay

Topics: Knowledge, Potential, Spirit

“Everyone should learn something new everyday. You all have inquiring minds and are seeking truth in many fields. I sincerely hope your greatest search is in the realm of spiritual things, because it is there that we are able to gain salvation and make the progress that leads to eternal life in our Father’s kingdom. The most important knowledge in the world is gospel knowledge. It is knowledge of God and his law, of those things that men must do to work out their salvation with fear and trembling before the Lord.”

Joseph Fielding Smith | Ensign, May 1971, pp. 2-3

Topics: Being Spiritual & Spirituality, Education, Eternal Life, Knowledge, Maturity, Salvation, Truth

“Humility is teachableness – an ability to realize that all virtues and abilities are not concentrated in one’s self. . . . Humility is never accusing nor contentious. . . . Humility is repentant and seeks not to justify its follies. It is forgiving others in the realization that there may be errors of the same kind or worse chalked up against itself. . . . Humility makes no bid for popularity and notoriety; demands no honors. . . . It is not self-abasement – the hiding in the corner, the devaluation of everything one does or thinks or says, but it is the doing of one’s best in every case and leaving of one’s acts, expressions and accomplishments to largely speak for themselves.”

Spencer W. Kimball | BYU Speeches of the Year, January 16, 1963

Topics: Humility, Knowledge

“Many in the world hold back from making the ‘leap of faith’ because they have already jumped to some other conclusions — often the conclusions of Korihor, which are: God never was nor ever will be; there is not a redeeming Christ; man cannot know the future; man cannot know of that which he cannot see; whatsoever a man does is no crime; and death is the end. (See Alma 30:13-18.) The number of modern-day adherents to the Korihor conclusions will grow.”

Elder Neal A. Maxwell | “The Inexhaustible Gospel,” Ensign, April 1993, p. 71

Topics: Faith, Jesus Christ, Knowledge, Secularism (Worldliness)

“How sweet is the assurance, how comforting is the peace that come from the knowledge that if we marry right and live right, our relationship will continue, notwithstanding the certainty of death and the passage of time. Men may write love songs and sing them. They may yearn and hope and dream. But all of this will be only a romantic longing unless there is an exercise of authority that transcends the powers of time and death.”

Gordon B. Hinckley | The Marriage That Endures

Topics: Knowledge, Marriage, Temples

“Knowledge without labor is profitless. Knowledge with labor is genius.”

Gordon B. Hinckley | Stand a Little Taller

Topics: Knowledge, Work

Faith and knowledge require equal effort and commitment. We cannot expect to have faith at the center of our lives if all of our efforts are expended on knowledge, sports, hobbies, making money, or other pursuits.

Elder Quentin L. Cook | “Strengthen Faith as You Seek Knowledge,” Ensign, September 2008

Topics: Faith, Knowledge, Testimony

“Faith, to be faith, must center around something that is not known. Faith, to be faith, must go beyond that for which there is confirming evidence. Faith, to be faith, must go into the unknown. Faith, to be faith, must walk to the edge of the light, and then a few steps into the darkness”

Boyd K. Packer | “Faith.” Improvement Era (Nov 1968) 71:60–63.

Topics: Faith, Knowledge

“Doubt, for us, leads to the capacity to ask genuine questions, and a genuine question is a question born out of sincerity and a yearning to know.”

Terryl and Fiona Givens | The Crucible of Doubt

Topics: Doubt, Knowledge, Testimony

“Let these truths sink down in our hearts, that we may even here begin to enjoy that which shall be in full hereafter.”

Joseph Smith | Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph Smith, (2007), p. 45

Topics: Heaven, Intelligence, Knowledge, Truth

A man is saved no faster than he gains knowledge.

Joseph Smith | Discourse, 10 April 1842, as Reported by Wilford Woodruff

Topics: Growth, Knowledge, Plan of Salvation, Salvation

“I know of no other practice which will make one more attractive in conversation than to be well-read in a variety of subjects. There is a great potential within each of us to go on learning. Regardless of our age, unless there be serious illness, we can read, study, drink in the writings of wonderful men and women. It is never too late to learn. ”

Gordon B. Hinckley | Stand a Little Taller

Topics: Dating & Courtship, Knowledge, Reading