Filling the World with Goodness and Truth

by Elder M. Russell Ballard

Our ability to develop and use our artistic gifts to edify and inspire others depends on our faithful adherence to the Lord's teachings.

God's stated purpose for His children is to bring to pass their immortality and eternal life (see Moses 1:39). His children's obedience to gospel principles makes it possible for them to work out their individual salvation through the grace and atonement of Jesus Christ, which atonement was part of our Heavenly Father's plan from the beginning.

I would like to focus these thoughts for the artistic who are part of the kingdom of God, or perhaps it would be better to say that I would like to express these thoughts to all members who have begun to recognize the artistic and beautifying instincts that each of us has developed to one degree or another. God's purpose for the artist in the gospel plan

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