Neal A. Maxwell
"Striving to incorporate these cardinal qualities (as a child, submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, see Mosiah 3:19) makes us more saintly and helps us immeasurably…The living Church greatly facilitates living discipleship in which opportunities and reminders of the needed virtues are all about us.
"Developing these saintly qualities is every bit as essential as receiving the ordinances of the gospel. Even the gifts of God are not of full use if one has not, for instance, developed the quality of charity:
’Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.’ (1 Corinthians 13:13.)
“Thus developing charity is clearly just as essential for admission to the upper realms of the celestial kingdom as is baptism! We are to be more than merely nice; rather, we are to be ‘full of love’ (Mosiah 3:19). Moroni could not have been more declarative on this point.” (If Thou Endure It Well, pp. 33-34)