| Contributed by: Ann Quote 1:
"The tenor of our times is
permissiveness. A most popular feature of one of the leading newspaper Sunday supplements
portrays the idols of the movie screen, the heroes of the athletic field—those whom
many young people long to emulate—as flouting the laws of God and rationalizing away
sinful practices, seemingly with no ill effect. Don’t you believe it! There is a time
of reckoning, even a balancing of the ledger. … It’s called judgment day, even
the big exam of life. Are we prepared? Are we pleased with our own performances?"
(Thomas S. Monson, "The Lighthouse of the Lord," New Era, July 1980, p. 18).
Quote 2:
Statement by President N. Eldon
Tanner:
"To mothers, daughters, and
women everywhere, let me stress the fact that because of your great potential and
influence for good in the lives of all of us, Satan is determined to destroy you. You
cannot compromise with him. You must have the courage, the strength, the desire, and the
determination to live as the Lord would have you live—good clean lives. Girls, keep
yourselves virtuous and worthy of a fine young man who has likewise kept himself clean, so
that together you can go to the House of the Lord to be sealed in the holy bonds of
matrimony for time and all eternity, and prepare a home where God will be pleased to send
his spirit children" (in Conference Report, Oct. 1973, p. 126; or Ensign, Jan. 1974,
p. 8).
Quote 3:
Statement by President Spencer W.
Kimball:
"I sincerely hope that our
Latter-day Saint girls and women, and men and boys, will drink deeply of the water of life
and conform their lives to the beautiful and comprehensive roles the Lord assigned to
them.
"… What satisfying
personal lives we can live! What beautiful families we can nurture and train! What a
heavenly future is ours!" ("The Lord’s Plan for Men and Women,"
Ensign, Oct. 1975, p. 5).
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