Modern prophets continue to teach and testify of the Lord’s “delight” in the chastity and moral cleanliness of both women and men. If this eternal truth could be burned into the souls of all people as if by fire, much of the hurt and heartaches and problems and plagues of this world could be averted. Virtue and chastity bring happiness and peace, whereas immorality, promiscuity, and perversion yield distrust and sorrows in this life, and, unless repented of, ultimate spiritual death in the next.
“The strengthening of family ties should become the rallying cry for Latter-day Saint families everywhere,” proclaimed President Spencer W. Kimball. “So also should a return to chastity, our most valuable possession. Chastity and virtue are ’most dear and precious above all things’ (Moroni 9:9), more valuable than rubies or diamonds, than herds and flocks, than gold and silver, or than automobiles and land. But, sadly, in many cases they are on sale at the cheapest shops and at the cheapest prices.”
“Most Dear and Precious Above All Things”
Modern prophets continue to teach and testify of the Lord’s “delight” in the chastity and moral cleanliness of both women and men. If this eternal truth could be burned into the souls of all people as if by fire, much of the hurt and heartaches and problems and plagues of this world could be averted. Virtue and chastity bring happiness and peace, whereas immorality, promiscuity, and perversion yield distrust and sorrows in this life, and, unless repented of, ultimate spiritual death in the next.
“The strengthening of family ties should become the rallying cry for Latter-day Saint families everywhere,” proclaimed President Spencer W. Kimball. “So also should a return to chastity, our most valuable possession. Chastity and virtue are ’most dear and precious above all things’ (Moroni 9:9), more valuable than rubies or diamonds, than herds and flocks, than gold and silver, or than automobiles and land. But, sadly, in many cases they are on sale at the cheapest shops and at the cheapest prices.”