Deacons Quorum
- Joseph Smith, compiled by Joseph Fielding Smith, "Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith", pp. 75-76
Teachers and Deacons are standing ministers and great things will be required of them in the absence of other officers. They are to strengthen members' faith, and persuade and urge forgiveness.
- Bishop Vaughn J. Featherstone, "The Role of the Deacon", New Era, May 1974