President Spencer W. Kimball (1895-1985) --
“Most members of the Church are aware of our intense interest in the missionary work in the Church and the appeals we have made in many lands for the rededication to preaching the gospel and preparing missionaries to carry the good news of the restoration to the people everywhere. I feel the same sense of urgency about temple work for the dead as I do about missionary work for the living, since they are basically one and the same. I have told my brethren of the General Authorities that this work for the dead is constantly on my mind.” ("The True Way of Life and Salvation"; Ensign, May 1978.)
"Each time a temple is dedicated to the Lord the darkness pushes farther back, prison doors are opened, and light comes into the world." ("Temples -- Hundreds of Them"; Dedication of the Los Angeles Temple; 12 March 1956.)
"Some of us have had occasion to wait for someone or something for a minute, an hour, a day, a week, or even a year. Can you imagine how our progenitors must feel, some of whom have perhaps been waiting for decades and even centuries for the temple work to be done for them? I have tried, in my mind’s eye, to envision our progenitors who are anxiously waiting for those of us who are their descendants and are members of the Church on the earth to do our duty toward them. I have also thought what a dreadful feeling it would be for us to see them in the hereafter and have to acknowledge that we had not been as faithful as we should have been here on earth in performing these ordinances in their behalf." ("The Things of Eternity—Stand We in Jeopardy?"; Ensign; January 1977)
