"USE CARE IN CHOOSING MARRIAGE COMPANION. This life is short, and eternity is long. When we contemplate that the marriage covenant will endure forever, it is well that it should be given careful consideration. Hasty action in this most important step in life may fill the mortal lives of husband, wife, and children with endless sorrow. The results may and often do reach into eternity and cause irreparable regrets that will endure forever. Marriage, from the viewpoint of the Latter-day Saint, is the one thing in life where it might prove fatal to act in haste with the idea in mind that repentance could come at leisure. The proper advice to our youth is to consider carefully with the view of choosing well a companion with an abiding faith in the gospel. Such a person is more likely to prove true to every vow and covenant. When the young man and the young woman are thoroughly grounded in the divine mission of our Lord and believe the gospel as revealed through Joseph Smith, the Prophet, the chances are all in favor of a happy union that will endure forever." - Joseph Fielding Smith, Doctrines of Salvation Vol. 1-3 p.267
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This is the reason you shouldn't get someone pregnant before marriage. Hopefully you learned that lesson. It causes hasty decisions doesn't it? Being an addict and not having a job to provide for your family and bankrupting them probably doesn't help either.
ReplyDeleteIf you are making good decisions in your life prior to marraige you most likely will make a good eternal companion choice.