"Conference
Report" - April 1948, p. 136
"This
work, unselfishly given in behalf of those on the other side, comes
nearer to the unparalleled vicarious work of the Savior than any other
of which I know."
Hinckley,
Ensign, Nov 1985, 53
“I think that
vicarious
work for the dead more nearly approaches the vicarious sacrifice of the
Savior Himself than any other work of which I know. It is given
with
love, without hope of compensation, or repayment or anything of the
kind.
What a glorious principle.”
President Gordon B. Hinckley (fireside in
Birmingham,
England, 29 Aug. 1995)
"We are not only to be messengers
of salvation to the living, but saviors for our ancestors who went
before us and who, though now dead, have paved the way whereby we might
receive our present blessings... The promise was made that, even if
they were born at a time and place where they could not hear the gospel
preached in life, God would provide saviors for them from among their
descendants. We are those saviors God promised through whom they
can have every priesthood blessing."
Elder
Theodore M. Burton, Ensign, May 1975