The Second Comforter Quotes

“In living our lives let us never forget that the deeds of our fathers and mothers are theirs, not ours; that their works cannot be counted to our glory; that we can claim no excellence and no place, because of what they did, that we must rise by our own labor, and that labor failing we shall fail. We may claim no honor, no reward, no respect, nor special position or recognition, no credit because of what our fathers were or what they wrought. We stand upon our own feet in our own shoes. There is no aristocracy of birth in this Church; it belongs equally to the highest and the lowliest; for as Peter said to Cornelius, the Roman centurion, seeking him: “… Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons: But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him. (Acts 10: 34, 35.)” (They of the Last Wagon, President J. Reuben Clark, Jr., Conference Report, October 1947, Afternoon Meeting, p.160.)”
― Denver C. Snuffer Jr., The Second Comforter: Conversing With the Lord Through the Veil

“Accordingly, the proper definition of “chosen vessel” is not a Church office, but, rather, whoever is visited. Whether the person is a “man” (as in the case of Paul when he held no Church office at the time and yet was visited on the road to Damascus)”
― Denver Carlos Snuffer Jr., The Second Comforter: Conversing With the Lord Through the Veil

“How vain and trifling have been our spirits, our conferences, our councils, our meetings, our private as well as public conversations—too low, too mean, too vulgar, too condescending for the dignified characters of the called and chosen of God, according to the purposes of His will, from before the foundation of the world!”
― Denver C. Snuffer Jr., The Second Comforter: Conversing With the Lord Through the Veil