LDS Quotes on Secularism & Worldliness
“Life offers you two precious gifts. One is time, the other, freedom of choice—the freedom to buy with your time what you will. You are free to exchange your allotment of time for thrills. You may trade it for base desires. You may invest it in greed. You may purchase with it vanity; you may spend your time in pursuit of material things. Yours is the freedom to choose. But these are not bargains, for in them you find no lasting satisfaction.”
“As we know, [Satan] is attempting to erode and destroy the very foundation of our society—the family. In clever and carefully camouflaged ways, he is attacking commitment to family life throughout the world and undermining the culture and covenants of faithful Latter-day Saints”
| (2012, November). Becoming goodly parents. Ensign, 42(11), 26–28.
| The Neal A. Maxwell Quote Book
“When something is wrong, increasing its commonality cannot really confer respectability.”
“Lowering the Lord’s standards to the level of a society’s inappropriate behavior is apostasy.”
“In a pluralistic society, it is easy to regard different belief systems as equally true. There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of; almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative.”
“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.”
“If you understand the great plan of happiness and follow it, what goes on in the world will not determine your happiness.”
| "The Father and the Family," Ensign, May 1994
“The [current] American story about marriage, as told in the law and in much popular literature, goes something like this: marriage is a relationship that exists primarily for the fulfillment of the individual spouses. If it ceases to perform this function, no one is to blame and either spouse may terminate it at will”
| Protect the children. Ensign, 42(11), 43–46.
“Many in the world hold back from making the ‘leap of faith’ because they have already jumped to some other conclusions — often the conclusions of Korihor, which are: God never was nor ever will be; there is not a redeeming Christ; man cannot know the future; man cannot know of that which he cannot see; whatsoever a man does is no crime; and death is the end. (See Alma 30:13-18.) The number of modern-day adherents to the Korihor conclusions will grow.”
| “The Inexhaustible Gospel,” Ensign, April 1993, p. 71