TAKE HEED TO YOURSELVES - Gospel Discourses of Joseph Fielding Smith Quotes

“Now think of what these foolish young people do when they marry out of the Church or out of the temple and remain satisfied with such a union? They cut themselves off from the exaltation in the kingdom of God. They deny to themselves the glorious privilege of being members of the family of God which is spoken of by Paul. For said he the whole family of God are blessed by his name, and they deny to themselves the privilege of belonging to our Father's family.

Moreover they place themselves where they cannot receive the blessings of eternal increase, but must remain forever alone, evidently miserable in the thought that they have willfully denied themselves the glorious privileges of eternal exaltation.”
― Joseph Fielding Smith, TAKE HEED TO YOURSELVES - Gospel Discourses of Joseph Fielding Smith