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"You can recognize women who are grateful to be a daughter of God by their outward appearance. These women understand their stewardship over their bodies and treat them with dignity. They care for their bodies as they would a holy temple. . . . Women who love God would never abuse or deface a temple with graffiti.

Nor would they throw open the doors of that holy, dedicated edifice and invite the world to look on."

-- Margaret D. Nadauld, Young Women's General Presidency

"Some have misunderstood and suppose that deceased souls are 'being baptized into the Mormon faith without their knowledge' or that 'people who once belonged to other faiths can have the Mormon faith retroactively imposed on them.' They assume that we somehow have power to force a soul in matters of faith. Of course we do not. God gave man his agency from the beginning. 'The dead who repent will be redeemed, through obedience to the ordinances of the house of God,' but only if they accept those ordinances. The church does not list them on its rolls or count them in its membership."

-- D. Todd Christofferson, First Quorum of Seventy

"Many youth have been led to believe that sexual intimacy is 'not that bad' as long as it does not involve the act that could cause pregnancy. That is false. Sexual intimacy in any of its forms, outside the covenant of marriage, is serious sin. Serious sin is addictive. It forges binding habits that are difficult to sever."

-- Richard G. Scott, Quorum of the Twelve Apostles

"Today is the Sabbath. It does not end when we leave this session; it does not end if someone calls on the telephone or knocks at our door inviting us to come out and play, go for a ride, to a ball game or shopping; it does not end because we are on vacation or someone is visiting us. . . . The Sabbath lasts all day. Obviously, our attention is on doing the Lord's will and not continuing to work nor indulge our carnal appetites for recreation and loafing."

-- H. Aldridge Gillespie, Second Quorum of Seventy

"What were in my generation carefree moments of movie-going, TV watching or magazine reading have now, with the additional availability of VCRs, the Internet and personal computers, become 'amusements' fraught with genuine moral danger."

-- Jeffrey R. Holland, Quorum of the Twelve Apostles

"Satan would enslave us by having us put drugs, alcohol, tobacco and other addictive behaviors into our bags. Satan will tell us that these things are OK and that 'everybody is doing it.' He will tell us that they bring popularity and acceptance. Satan's lies can be very enticing, especially at that critical time in life when young people are craving acceptance and popularity."

-- Richard C. Edgley, Presiding Bishopric