“We Durst Not Go Forth and Attack Them in Their Strongholds”

"We can use strategies from the Nephite war stories to help us endure to the end and to overcome temptation. Helaman wrote, 'And they were so much more numerous than was our army that we durst not go forth and attack them in their strongholds' (Alma 58:2Alma 58:2). From this we learn that we must avoid Satan's strongholds and consistently seek to stand in holy places. Corianton could have avoided his encounter with the harlot Isabel had he stayed away from the land of Siron (Alma 39:3-4). Virtually every city has a land of Siron where circumstances, environment, and designing persons can influence us to sin." (Doctrines of the Book of Mormon: 1991 Sperry Symposium on the Book of Mormon, p. 64)