General Authorities Teach General Principles

We can add to that that we are teaching general principles because we are General Authorities and general officers.

Author: Dallin H. Oaks
Title: Building Up a Righteous Posterity
Where: Worldwide Leadership Training Meeting February 9, 2008

We who are General Authorities and general officers are called to teach His general rules. You and we then lead specific lives and must seek the Lord’s guidance regarding specific circumstances. But there would be mass confusion and loss of gospel promises if no general ideal and no doctrinal standard were established and, in our case today, repeated.

Author: Jeffrey R. Holland
Title: Building Up a Righteous Posterity
Where: Worldwide Leadership Training Meeting February 9, 2008