Some favorite quotes on the endowment

Where that endowment is, there is the church of Jesus Christ. Where that endowment is not, there the church of Jesus Christ is not. F. Henry Edwards, “Your Heritage, the Endowment”, 1950

We expect this “space”, this building set on a hill which we have created with the Lord’s help will be made increasingly sacred by the Endowment, the presence of the Spirit. Velma Ruch, Summoned to Pilgrimage, 1994

All this ministry must increasingly have its part in preparing God’s earthbound ministers to rise above the limitations of their worldliness, to fire their hearts and souls with the vision of what the Eternal Father would do through them, to share with them a vision of things to come, and to purify, enable, and to make strong in might, faith, and in loving outreach ere He can safely delegate to these His servants, vast spiritual powers of endowment. Earl Curry, The Endowment, 1957

Jesus promises endowment to men on mission for him, with him. Expectation was to be contingent on endeavor. Roy Cheville, Expectations for Endowed Living, 1972

We seek endowment in order to understand and do more perfectly the will of God. Without that point of view there can be no Zion. With it we can see Zion as God’s program for endowing us individually and as a group with resources which enable us to share in Jesus’ ministry to the captive, the blind, and the poor. Maurice Draper, “Endowment for Redemptive Ministries”,1974

It is not your numbers, it is not your numbers that matter, it is the power of the Holy Spirit in you that is revived and remade, and transformed, and filled, so that you are a people of Endowment. And if two can put 10,000 to flight, then a handful of My people, filled with My Holy Spirit, living in the Spirit of Zion, can transform this earth. Bob Slasor, “Inspired Counsel to CCM Leadership Summit”, 2007

We should anticipate marvelous spiritual endowment in the Temple because endowment is an experience of a prophetic community….Endowment will occur when divine grace is matched by a humble, human desire to be like Jesus. Richard Brown, “Keys of Temple Endowment”, 1990

I was shown love conquering hate, selfishness, and kindred evils. I saw that we should pray more for love to abound, that all our Zionic program will go forward under the endowment of God’s power to bring it to pass. I saw the implements we were using to make smooth the rough places and remove every obstacle ahead of us for Zion and “The Plains of Peace.” Our powers and God given talents are to overcome evil with good. Addie Spaulding Stowell, The Red Man’s Hope (A Biography of Elder Hubert Case), 1963

We can have the endowment when we extend ourselves, when we go as far at it is possible for us to go. When we energize to the limit of our capacity, then there is called forth to us those reserves of spiritual light and power which God has in His own keeping. Arthur Oakman, “Spiritual Endowment”, 1966