Saturday, January 1, 2011

poison the world’s peanut butter supply

I was listening to the Mormon Channel on my Android the other day, and I heard this talk. Here is a part of it that I loved:

M. Russell Ballard (Quorum of the Twelve)
Let me say again that the family is the main target of evil’s attack and must therefore be the main point of our protection and defense. As I said once before, when you stop and think about it from a diabolically tactical point of view, fighting the family makes sense to Satan. When he wants to disrupt the work of the Lord, he doesn’t poison the world’s peanut butter supply {this made me laugh lol}, thus bringing the Church’s missionary system to its collective knees. He doesn’t send a plague of laryngitis to afflict the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. He doesn’t legislate against green Jell-O and casseroles. When evil wants to strike out and disrupt the essence of God’s work, it attacks the family. It does so by attempting to disregard the law of chastity, to confuse gender, to desensitize violence, to make crude and blasphemous language the norm, and to make immoral and deviant behavior seem like the rule rather than the exception. ("Let Our Voices Be Heard," Ensign, November 2003, p.16)

2 comments:

  1. Without a doubt. I totally remember this talk and feel the effects of this battle even more as my children get older and more immersed in "the world." I am grateful to know that we are not left to fight this battle alone, though ... thank HEAVEN!!!

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  2. Oh how I love this quote! Thank you for sharing it!

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