Daily Inspiration Quote by Richard G. Scott

Scott is selling a spiritual technology: revelation as a scarce, relational resource that increases when handled with discretion. The phrase "quiet impression" is doing heavy lifting. It frames guidance as subtle and interior, not a thunderclap you can publicly audit. By naming it "personal instruction from the Lord", he grants it maximum authority while keeping it maximally individualized. That combination is powerful: it makes the recipient feel singled out by God and, at the same time, exempts the experience from ordinary standards of proof.

The insistence on privacy is less about secrecy for its own sake than about cultivating a specific posture: reverence, restraint, and loyalty to the sacred. "It is personal and private" reads like pastoral counsel, but the subtext is behavioral training. If spiritual impressions are treated as intimate gifts, the believer learns to protect them from casual conversation, skepticism, and the ego-inflating impulse to perform holiness.

Then comes the transactional turn: "Because then He will give us more". Scott casts God not as a vending machine but as a relationship that responds to trust. Still, it’s an incentive structure: discretion becomes a prerequisite for spiritual abundance. In Latter-day Saint context, where personal revelation is prized yet bounded by priesthood order and communal norms, this is also a stabilizer. It encourages members to seek guidance while containing the social ripple effects of publicly shared revelations that might challenge leaders, doctrine, or family dynamics. Privacy keeps the experience intense, authoritative, and, crucially, governable.