Boyd K. Packer (Quorum of the Twelve)

[In the scriptures] we find principles of truth that will resolve every confusion and every problem and every dilemma that will face the human family or any individual in it. (Address to Religious Educators, 14 October, 1972)

Ezra Taft Benson (President)

One of the most important things you can do ... is to immerse yourselves in the scriptures. Search them diligently. Feast upon the words of Christ. Learn the doctrine. Master the principles that are found therein.(Ensign, May 1986, 81)

Marion G. Romney (First Presidency)

One cannot honestly study the scriptures without learning gospel principles because the scriptures have been written to preserve principles for our benefit. (CES Symposium on the Old Testament, 17 August 1979)