That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of what was formerly considered good - the atavism of an old ideal.
Do the right thing, and then do the next right thing, and that will lead you to the next right thing after that.
No one ever became thoroughly bad in one step.
Vice, like virtue, Grows in small steps, and no true innocence Can ever fall at once to deepest guilt.
No man ever became very wicked all at once.
For every step in spiritual perception, three steps are to be taken in moral development.
As we grow in holiness, we grow in hatred of sin; and God, being infinitely holy, has an infinite hatred of sin.
And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand. He had not yet learned that if you do one good deed your reward usually is to do another and harder and better one.
We each begin in innocence. We all become guilty.
The evolution of a highly destined society must be moral; it must run in the grooves of the celestial wheels.
Sin happens whenever we refuse to keep growing.
The Book of Mormon is our handbook of instructions as we travel the pathway from bad to good to better and strive to have our hearts changed.
If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil . He cannot stop at the beast. The most savage of men are not beasts; they are worse, a great deal worse.
There is no man suddenly either excellently good or extremely evil, but grows either as he holds himself up in virtue or lets himself slide to viciousness.
