Daily Gems: Obedience to the Laws of God

Daily Gems
Obedience to the Laws of God
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“The world says . . . I am my own master; I am an independent being; I will take my own course, etc. Some of the Latter-day Saints almost say the same thing; not quite, but they would like to get near it. ‘I am a free man; I will be damned if I don’t do as I please, etc.’ Well, I will tell you another part of that story. You will be damned if you do act as you please, unless you please to do and to keep the laws of God. We cannot violate his laws with impunity nor trample under foot these eternal principles which exist in all nature. If all nature is compelled to be governed by law or suffer loss, why not man?”

Topics: commandments, agency

(John Taylor, in Teachings of Presidents of the Church: John Taylor [2001], 33)