TrendZion

Passages drawn from the sermons and published works that carry this theme forward.

1. 1858·John Taylor·Apostle
   These are some of the reasons why we act as we do. Would you like the prospect of having such a set of scamps as those to rule over you—to have them crammed down your throat, whether or not, and be obliged to swallow them and everything associated with them, and allow them to carry on their abominations here, to corrupt your wives and daughters, and spread desolation around? Do you like the picture? The great difficulty in the matter is that we are the people of God, and they are not.
2. 1929·Melvin J. Ballard·Apostle
   ashamed for the whole world to see his acts revealed. I confess to you that has been a greater joy and strength to me than money would have been. I plead with you to leave that kind of an inheritance to your sons and your daughters, that they may be stimulated and inspired by your honesty, by your integrity, by your dependability, to be honest with God and with their fellow men; that that heritage may be left! with them that may inspire them to go on and perpetuate these high standards in preparation for the more glorious things that are to come to those who can maintain such high ideals.
3. 1944·George Albert Smith·Apostle
   Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work : But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God : in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates : For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day : wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
4. 1961·Joseph Fielding Smith·Apostle
   committed is for a man and a woman to separate after they have been sealed in the house of the Lord to become sons and daughters of God and members of his household, and to have children come to them, sent by divine approval to be in that household not only for time but for all eternity.
5. 1986·Gordon B. Hinckley·Apostle
   In this work there must be commitment. There must be devotion. We are engaged in a great eternal struggle that concerns the very souls of the sons and daughters of God. We are not losing. We are winning. We will continue to win if we will be faithful and true. We can do it. We must do it. We will do it. There is nothing the Lord has asked of us that in faith we cannot accomplish.
6. 1990·Russell M. Nelson·Apostle
   Finally, a saint is one who receives the gifts of the Spirit that God has promised to all His faithful sons and daughters (see Joel 2:28–29 ; Acts 2:17–18 ).