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Voice of God--
I sought to hear the voice of God,
And climbed the highest steeple;
But God declared; go down again,
I dwell among the people.
-Louis Newman as quoted by Sterling W. Sill

According to our philosophy in the Church, every person in the Church is or should be a missionary. No matter what his profession or vocation, he should be attempting to spread the message of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ wherever he goes and to touch every life with that message.
Something, my brothers and sisters, is happening in this Church, something wonderful. As we walk in the small world of our individual wards and branches we are scarcely aware of it. And yet it is real, and it is tremendous. We are growing. We are expanding. Enough people will come into the Church this year to constitute more than 600 new wards or branches...
-Hugh B. Brown

New members are to be called and trained to serve in Church positions as soon as possible after they join the Church, according to the instructional materials. Male members should receive the Aaronic Priesthood within a reasonable period, and be taught the importance of the priesthood and be sustained by a vote of the members in sacrament meeting. Male converts who are 16 or older are ordained to be priests.
-John L. Hart

The future will be essentially the same as the past, only much brighter and greatly enlarged. We must continue to reach out across the world, teaching the gospel at home and abroad. A divine mandate rests heavily upon us. We cannot run from it. We cannot avoid it.
-Gordon B. Hinckley

There must be no diminution in our effort to carry the gospel to the people of the earth. In the future even more of our young men must prepare themselves to go out in service to the Lord. Our Christian acts must precede them and accompany them wherever necessary...
-Gordon B. Hinckley

The intensity of our desire to share the gospel is a great indicator of the extent of our personal conversion. (Ensign, November 2001)
-Dallin H. Oaks