Quentin L. Cook explains how pride affects the thinking of the world: “One of the unique and troubling aspects of our day is that many people engage in sinful conduct but refuse to consider it sinful. They have no remorse or willingness to acknowledge their conduct as being morally wrong. Even some who profess a belief in the Father and the Son wrongfully take the position that a loving Father in Heaven should exact no consequences for conduct contrary to His commandments.”
He then added these words of Robert Louis Stevenson: “Sooner or later everybody has to sit down to a banquet of consequences.”
(27) Quoted here form Elder Neil L. Anderson’s ‘The Gift of Forgiveness’ (Salt Lake City, Deseret Book, 2019) 125-26
Robert Louis Stevenson, in Carla Carlisle, “A Banquet of Consequences,” Country Life, July 6, 2016, 48. As used by Quentin L. Cook, “Valiant in the Testimony of Jesus, Ensign November 2016.
