“It is the will of the heavens that all men receive truth according to their ability to decipher and digest eternal verities.... This concept demonstrates both divine wisdom and mercy. Men ought not to receive more than they are ready to receive; the Lord would never want to drown one in the living waters! (Joseph Fielding McConkie and Robert L. Millet, Sustaining and Defending the Faith, p. 99; see also Alma 12:9-11; D&C 19:29, 31; D&C 71:1.)”
“Give Place for a Portion of My Words”
We consider that God has created man with a mind capable of instruction, “ taught the Prophet Joseph Smith,”and a faculty which may be enlarged in proportion to the heed and diligence given to the light communicated from heaven to the intellect; and that the nearer man approaches perfection, the clearer are his views, and the greater his enjoyments, till he has overcome the evils of his life and lost every desire for sin; and like the ancients, arrives at that point of faith where he is wrapped in the power and glory of his Maker and is caught up to dwell with Him. But we consider that this is a station to which no man ever arrived in a moment: he must have been instructed in the government and laws of that kingdom by proper degrees, until his mind is capable in some measure of comprehending the propriety, justice, equality, and consistency of the same.“ (Teachings, p. 51.)”