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"Prepare yourselves
mentally. A mission requires a great deal of mental
preparation. You must memorize missionary discussions,
memorize scriptures, and often learn a new language. The
discipline to do this is learned in your early years."
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"I have discovered that many times you don't fully understand a scripture until you memorize it. And sometimes I have memorized a passage because it seemed important and valuable to me- then afterwards I discovered deeper meanings that I hadn't even known were there.
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"As Bruce R. McConkie waited for [a] flight to be announced, he buried himself in a book by a renowned New Testament scholar. He was delighted to discover material by a sectarian scholar that constituted a marvelous defense of Mormonism. As he boarded the flight he met Marion G. Romney, then a member of the First Presidency. He said, "President Romney, I have got to read this to you. This is good," and proceeded to share his newfound treasure. When he was finished, President Romney said, "Bruce, I have to tell you a story. A few years ago I found something that I thought was remarkable written by one of the world’s great scholars. I read it to J. Rueben Clark, and he said, ‘Look when you read things like that, and you find that the world doesn’t agree with us, so what? And when you read something like that and you find they are right on the mark and they agree with us, so what?'"
Memorization for Children and Adults
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Why is scripture memorization important?
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Free downloadable study lists from SoftLore:
Top 100 Scriptures: The scriptures most commonly referred to in General Conference
LDS Hymns: Nearly 300 hymns to learn by heart
The Living Christ: The Testimony of the ApostlesThe Family: A Proclamation to the World
Relief Society Declaration
Text of all 100 Scripture mastery verses
Old
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Book
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Doctrine
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Faith: Scriptures and quotes about faith
Missionary Discussions: Learn the missionary discussions
"For
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Young
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Scout oath, law, motto and slogan.
Young
Women: Young women theme, values, and motto
Latter-day
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States:
Learn and memorize facts about each US state
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"Scriptorian is a simple computer program designed to help people learn scriptures faster, and help them remember scriptures longer. Scriptorian is incredibly customizable, and really allows you to tailor a scripture-memorizing program that will work best for you. "The program is built around a feature called a "study list." The study list is your tool for the other activities in Scriptorian. Starting either from scratch, or using a predefined list (which can then be modified to fit your needs) you can build a set of scriptural passages that augments your personal study, appeals to your special interests, or addresses your individual needs. The "predefined" study lists include all four years of seminary scripture mastery scriptures, making Scriptorian ready-to-use for seminary students and teachers. And if the whole family wants to use Scriptorian, each member can have a perfectly customized list with the scriptures they currently want to learn." (Jason McDonald, PhD Candidate in Instructional Psychology and Technology at BYU). Read the complete product review |
Scripture Mastery Verses.
All 100 verses for your students to memorize. To go with your great list
of seminary scriptures
Scripture Memory Games to enlighten and entertain.
Sing the Scriptures. You guessed it -- scripture mastery put to music. The website has audio links so you can preview the toe-tappin' sound. Great for those audio-visual learners!
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"May I suggest that in
our family night gatherings we make it a project to
memorize one scripture citation a week pertinent to this
work. At the conclusion of a year our children will have on
their lips a fund of scripture which will remain with them
throughout their lives." |
| "I have a vision of thousands
of missionaries going into the mission field with hundreds
of passages memorized from the Book of Mormon so that they
might feed the needs of a spiritually famished world." President Ezra Taft Benson, October 1988 General Conference |
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"...It is desirable
that our children should learn to memorize important
passages; such that will leave a strong impression upon
their lives; scriptural passages that they will use as
their guiding star; scriptural passages that will help to
form convictions in their minds of right and wrong;
scriptural passages that will bring conviction to their
hearts." |
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"I suggest that you memorize scriptures that touch your heart and fill your soul with understanding. When scriptures are used as the Lord has caused them to be recorded, they have intrinsic power that is not communicated when paraphrased. Sometimes when there is a significant need in my life, I review mentally scriptures that have given me strength. There is great solace, direction, and power that flow from the scriptures, especially the words of the Lord." Elder Richard G. Scott, October 1999 General Conference
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