..."consider the subsequent and sobering tragedy of children having children, of unwed mothers, of children without parents, of hundreds of thousands of fatherless children, and of rampant spousal infidelity... Yet carnalists are unwilling to deny themselves, even though all of society suffers from an awful avalanche of consequences!"
"In Proverbs, we read, "For the commandment is a lamp". Once darkened, a society loses its capacity to distinguish between right and wrong... A society which permits anything will eventually lose everything!"
"Gross sins arise ominously and steadily out of the swamp of self-indulgence and self-pity."
"Sadly, too, a few envy the wicked."
"Ironically, in all their eagerness to experience certain things, hedonists, become desensitized."
..."some worry only about holes in the ozone layer, while the fabric of many families who lack the lamp resembles Swiss cheese."
"Many things will not get better until we have better families, but this will require much more self-denial, not less."
..."end up with more protected pornography than protected children."
..."urging self-restraint on hedonists is like discouraging Dracula from hanging around the blood bank!"
"All things considered, brothers and sisters, to whom did David deal the greater blow, Goliath or Uriah? Or himself?"
"...God's second commandment, love thy neighbor, clearly leaves no room for racism."
"So it is that real, personal sacrifice never was placing an animal on the altar. Instead, it is a willingness to put the animal in us upon the altar and letting it be consumed!"
Elder Neal A. Maxwell
May 1995 Ensign
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