It is hard to find much in the way of romantic love in the Book of Mormon. This may be the book’s most romantic moment, when the queen protects her husband from being buried alive with the comment, to me he doth not stink.
Marion D. Hanks
“The love of this faithful wife for her beloved husband seems typical to me of the love which will obtain in the heavenly kingdom and which should here characterize our relationships with those dear to us.” (Conference Report, Apr. 1957, p. 129)
“He Granteth Unto Men According to Their Desire”
Boyd K. Packer
“There is something important about our deciding that we want to be a good teacher-a good parent. There is something equally important about making that desire known to the Lord. Many of us have the desire, but we keep it to ourselves. An important key is turned when we go through the formality of stating our desires to Him who can grant them.” (Teach Ye Diligently, p. 14)
Neal A. Maxwell
“Desire denotes a real longing or craving. Hence righteous desires are much more than passive preferences or fleeting feelings. Of course our genes, circumstances, and environments matter very much, and they shape us significantly. Yet there remains an inner zone in which we are sovereign, unless we abdicate. In this zone lies the essence of our individuality and our personal accountability…Mostly, brothers and sisters, we become the victims of our own wrong desires…Like it or not, therefore, reality requires that we acknowledge our responsibility for our desires…Righteous desires need to be relentless, therefore, because, said President Brigham Young, ‘the men and women who desire to obtain seats in the celestial kingdom will find that they must battle every day’ (Journal of Discourses 11:14). Therefore, true Christian soldiers are more than weekend warriors…Some of our present desires, therefore, need to be diminished and then finally dissolved.” (Ensign, Nov. 1996, pp. 21-22 as taken from Latter-day Commentary on the Book of Mormon compiled by K. Douglas Bassett, p. 228)