“The tenor of our times is permissiveness. Magazines and television shows portray the stars of the movie screen, the heroes of the athletic field—those whom many young people long to emulate—as disregarding the laws of God and flaunting sinful practices, seemingly with no ill effect. Don’t you believe it! There is a time of reckoning—even a balancing of the ledger. Every Cinderella has her midnight—if not in this life, then in the next. Judgment Day will come for all. … I plead with you to choose to obey.”
Thomas S. Monson
When the hour struck her ball gown turned back into tatters
and she fled the palace while the mindless crowd still chatters.
And so may my fine surface crack, my bold front disappear,
if I do not mend my ways and live in Godly fear.
Obedience is glamorous, but only wise folk know it;
they never boast about it, but just go about and show it.
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