(Isa. 13:11)
The encroachment of the world into our lives is threatening! How hard it seems for many of us to live in the world and yet not of the world.
Through Isaiah the word of the Lord comes:
“And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.” (Isa. 13:11.) …
Every man should love his wife and cherish and protect her all the days of their lives and she should love, honor, and appreciate her husband… .
Analyze the divorces of which you know, and you will find so often selfishness is in them… . Certainly, selfishness is near its greatest peak when innocent children must suffer for the sins of their parents… .
It was found in … [a] survey that about 90 percent gave as the reason for the breakup immorality on the part of one or both of the participants.
Immorality is totally selfish. Can you think of a single unselfish element in that sin? Accordingly, if two good people will discard selfishness, generally they can be compatible… .
“Sex can be a wonderful servant but a terrible master: that it can be a creative force more powerful than any other in the fostering of a love, companionship, happiness or can be the most destructive of all of life’s forces.” (Billy Graham, “What the Bible Says About Sex,” Reader’s Digest, May 1970, 118.) …
This, then, is our program: to reaffirm and boldly carry forward the work of God in cleanliness.
(Spencer W. Kimball, Ensign, May 1974, 5–8.)