“Every man clothes his ideas in his own words. Joseph Smith did not speak as Heber J. Grant speaks. The principles, the ideas were the same, but the words used, the forms of expression, belong to the speaker; and every man has a right to express as best he can in the words God gives him, the eternal truths that he may obtain from a divine source.”
– John A. Widtsoe, 1934
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Ah, excellent. He said this a few times, I gather, and so have other LDS. Wish it were more widely understood.
I *knew* you would like this one, Ben. 🙂
I only believe a person if they speak in ancient biblical Hebrew.
Ha!
I have long felt that when I am giving blessings that I am engaged in a cooperative venture with the Divine. It can be scary in that I know my words are a very poor instrument for the ideas whispered wordlessly by the Spirit.