D. Todd Christofferson Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• There could never be enough rules so finely crafted as to anticipate and cover every situation, and even if there were, enforcement would be impossibly expensive and burdensome. This approach leads to diminished freedom for everyone...In the end, it is only an internal moral compass in each individual that can effectively deal with the root causes as well as the symptoms of societal decay. Societies will struggle in vain to establish the common good until sin is denounced as sin and moral discipline takes its place in the pantheon of civic virtues.

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Struggle, Roots, Discipline

• Women bring with them into the world a certain virtue, a divine gift that makes them adept at instilling such qualities as faith, courage, empathy and refinement in relationships and in cultures.

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Empathy, Being A Mother, Quality

• You cannot lift others to virtue on the one hand if you are entertaining vice on the other.

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Hands, Vices, Virtue

  "The Moral Force of Women". D. Todd Christofferson's Address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. October 2013.

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