1 Ne. 14:3; D&C 71:7-10; 109:24-25; refer in this text to 1 Ne. 22:16-17; Hel. 5:20-52
“He [Ezra Taft Benson] always kept this verse from the Book of Mormon in his wallet: [3 Ne. 22:17]. And always this statement was kept on his desk or in his study: ‘Be right, and then be easy to live with, if possible, but in that order.’” (Boyd K. Packer, remarks made at the funeral of Pres. Benson, Ensign, July 1994, p. 32)
“Now, I think we all understand that this great latter-day kingdom has been set up for the last time, never again to be destroyed, and that never again will the necessity arise for another and future restoration… . But there is one great thing about this dispensation which differs from all the dispensations of the past. It is that this time, with the opening of the heavens and the revealing of the gospel in our day, there came the positive, unqualified assurance that the gospel was to remain on earth; that the kingdom was to be secure; that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was to remain among men to prepare a people for the second coming of the Son of man.” (Bruce R. McConkie, Conference Report, Oct. 1958, pp. 114-115)
[A portion of the dedicatory prayer of the Kirtland Temple] “We ask thee, Holy Father, to establish the people that shall worship, and honorably hold a name and standing in this thy house, to all generations and for eternity; That no weapon formed against them shall prosper; that he who diggeth a pit for them shall fall into the same himself.” (Joseph Smith, as quoted in Isaiah Plain and Simple, Brewster, p. 271)
“No unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing; persecutions may rage, mobs may combine, armies may assemble, calumny may defame, but the truth of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent, till it has penetrated every clime, swept every country, and sounded in every ear, till the purposes of God shall be accomplished, and the Great Jehovah shall say the work is done.” (Joseph Smith, History of the Church, 4:540)