I fear that there are too many priesthood bearers who have done little or nothing to develop their ability to access the powers of Heaven.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
One cannot escape the harsh fact that as a ministerial profession, the priesthood has very serious problems. They are not new. They did not develop yesterday or last year.
The priesthood is not really so much a gift as it is a commission to serve, a privilege to lift, and an opportunity to bless the lives of others.
The blessings of the priesthood are available to every righteous man and woman. We may all receive the Holy Ghost, obtain personal revelation, and be endowed in the temple, from which we emerge 'armed' with power.
To understand the power of the priesthood, we must know its limitations.
The power of the living God is here on the earth. The Priesthood is here.
Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen, they alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of Heaven upon Earth.
I think there's many a slaveholder'll get to Heaven. They don't know better. They acts up to the light they have.
I look at tens of thousands of church leaders who still do need a bit of an awakening.
We do not wish to enter Heaven until our work is done, for it would make us uneasy if there were one single soul left to be saved by our means.
I worry about all who are impure in their thoughts, feelings, or actions or who demean their wives or children, thereby cutting off priesthood power.