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==George F. Richards: "The Lord has given me dreams which to me are just as real and as much from God as was the dream of King Nebuchadnezzar"==
Spencer W. Kimball, quoting George F. Richards:
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The Lord has revealed to men by dreams something more than I [President Kimball] ever understood or felt before. I heard this more than once in quorum meetings of the Council of the Twelve when George F. Richards was president. He was the venerable father of Brother LeGrand Richards who has just spoken to us. He said, 

“I believe in dreams, brethren. The Lord has given me dreams which to me are just as real and as much from God as was the dream of King Nebuchadnezzar, which was the means of saving a nation from starvation, or the dream of Lehi who through a dream led his colony out of the old country across the mighty deep to this promised land, or any other dreams that we might read in the scriptures.  

“It is not out of place for us to have important dreams,” he said. “And then more than 40 years ago I had a dream which I am sure was from the Lord. In this dream I was in the presence of my Savior as he stood mid-air. He spoke no word to me, but my love for him was such that I have not words to explain. I know that no mortal man can love the Lord as I experienced that love for the Savior unless God reveals it to him. I would have remained in his presence, but there was a power drawing me away from him.

“As a result of that dream, I had this feeling that no matter what might be required of my hands, what the gospel might entail unto me, I would do what I should be asked to do even to the laying down of my life. 

“And so when we read in the scriptures what the Savior said to his disciples, ‘In my Father’s house are many mansions: … I go to prepare a place for you … that where I am, there ye may be also.’ (John 14:2–3.) I think that is where I want to be.

“If only I can be with my Savior and have that same sense of love that I had in that dream, it will be the goal of my existence, the desire of my life.”<ref>{{General Conference|author=Spencer W. Kimball|article=The Cause Is Just and Worthy|date=April 1974|url=https://new.lds.org/general-conference/1974/04/the-cause-is-just-and-worthy?lang=eng}}</ref>
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[[es:Fuente:Kimball citando Richards:1974:El Señor me ha dado sueños que para mí son tan reales y tanto de Dios como fue el sueño del rey Nabucodonosor]]
[[pt:Fonte:Kimball quoting Richards:1974:O Senhor me enviou sonhos que para mim são tão reais e provenientes de Deus como o sonho do Rei Nabucodonosor]]