According to John, the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy [see Revelation 19:10]; . . . if I be a true teacher and witness, I must possess the spirit of prophecy, and that constitutes a prophet.
Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, sel. Joseph Fielding Smith (1976), 269.
A person may profit by noticing the first intimation of the spirit of revelation; for instance, when you feel pure intelligence flowing into you, it may give you sudden strokes of ideas, so that by noticing it, you may find it fulfilled the same day or soon. . . . And thus by learning the Spirit of God and understanding it, you may grow into the principle of revelation, until you become perfect in Christ Jesus.
Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, sel. Joseph Fielding Smith (1976), 151.
God has created man with a mind capable of instruction, and a faculty which may be enlarged in proportion to the heed and diligence given to the light communicated from heaven to the intellect; and . . . the nearer man approaches perfection, the clearer are his views, and the greater his enjoyments, till he has overcome the evils of his life and lost every desire for sin; and like the ancients, arrives at that point of faith where he is wrapped in the power and glory of his Maker, and is caught up to dwell with Him.
History of the Church, 2:8.
