True Manifestations of the Holy Ghost

This week, one of the prompts in the Come, Follow Me manual asked us to look throughout D&C 50 for principles that help us understand how to recognize true manifestations of the Holy Ghost. My favorite principle was found in verses 23-25: If something fills us with more light then it comes from God. This principle reminded me of a quote by Parley P. Pratt that I heard a couple of years ago that was shared at one of my Stake Conferences. Since then, I've seen it quoted in lots of other talks:

"The gift of the Holy Spirit...quickens all the intellectual faculties, increases, enlarges, expands and purifies all the natural passions and affections, and adapts them, by the gift of wisdom, to their lawful use. It inspires, develops, cultivates and matures all the fine toned sympathies, joys, tastes, kindred feelings and affections of our nature. It inspires virtue, kindness, goodness, tenderness, gentleness and charity. It develops beauty of person, form and features. It tends to health, vigor, animation and social feeling. It develops and invigorates all the faculties of the physical and intellectual man. It strengthens, invigorates and gives tone to the nerves. In short, it is, as it were, marrow to the bone, joy to the heart, light to the eyes, music to the ears, and life to the whole being."

As we allow ourselves to be guided and directed by the Holy Ghost, then we will continue to receive more light. That light can (and will!) grow brighter and continue to enlighten our minds and give us more understanding and knowledge.