Spencer W. Kimball
“Because men are prone to postpone action and ignore directions, the Lord has repeatedly given strict injunctions and issued solemn warnings. Again and again in different phraseology and throughout the centuries the Lord has reminded man so that he could never have excuse. And the burden of the prophetic warning has been that the time to act is now, in this mortal life. One cannot with impunity delay his compliance with God’s commandments.” (The Miracle of Forgiveness, p. 9)
Ezra Taft Benson
"Some people intend to make a decision and then never get around to it…They intend to paint the barn, to fix the fence, to haul away that old machinery or remove that old shed, but the time of decision just never arrives.
“Some of us face a similar situation in our personal lives…We intend to pay a full tithing, to begin keeping the Word of Wisdom, to make our initial home teaching visits early in the month. However, without actual decision followed by implementation, the weeks and months go by and nothing is accomplished. We could drift into eternity on these kinds of good intentions. The Lord apparently sensed this weakness in His children, for He said: ’Wherefore, if ye believe me, ye will labor while it is called today. (DC 64:25)” (God, Family, Country, p. 389.)
Richard L. Evans
“It sometimes seems that we live as if we wonder when life is going to begin. It isn’t always clear just what we are waiting for, but some of us sometimes persist in waiting so long that life slips by—finding us still waiting for something that has been going on all the time. … This is the life in which the work of this life is to be done. Today is as much a part of eternity as any day a thousand years ago or as will be any day a thousand years hence. This is it, whether we are thrilled or disappointed, busy or bored! This is life, and it is passing.” (Improvement Era, Jan. 1967, p. 65.)
Dallin H. Oaks
“We are concerned that some young people who are anticipating serving a mission or being married in the temple have a very lax attitude toward sin. ‘I’ll just have a few free ones,’ they say, ‘and then I’ll repent quickly, and go on my mission (or get married in the temple), and everything will be alright.’…Such persons want to experience the sin, but avoid its effects…There is something very peculiar about the state of mind or heart of the person who deliberately commits sin in the expectation that he or she will speedily and comfortably repent…there is a relationship between sin and suffering that is not understood by people who knowingly sin in the expectation that all the burden of suffering will be borne by another, that the sin is all theirs, but the suffering is all His. That is not the way. Repentance, which is an assured passage to an eternal destination, is nevertheless not a free ride.” (BYU Fireside, Aug. 5, 1990as taken from Latter-day Commentary on the Book of Mormon compiled by K. Douglas Bassett, p. 314)