"I bear you my testimony in all sincerity.
I know that this work is true. I know that God lives, a glorified and exalted
personage, having a body of flesh and bone and a spirit as tangible as man's,
all powerful in Heaven and in earth. The earth is the Lord's and the fullness
thereof. He is the Eternal Father of all men. Jesus Christ is the First-born in
the spirit and the Only Begotten of the Father in the flesh. His is the only
name under Heaven by which mankind may be saved. No man can be saved in the
Kingdom of God without believing on the name of Jesus Christ and in the
efficacy of his atonement. (George F. Richards, Testimony delivered in the
tabernacle, October 7, 1944, in The
Life of George F. Richards: President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints [Provo, Utah: J. Grant
Stevenson, 1965], 114)
