President Wilford Woodruff (deceased) wrote:
“Ask any people, nations, kingdoms, or generations of men the question and they will tell you they are seeking for happiness, but how are they seeking for it? . . . By serving the devil as fast as they can, and almost the last thing that the children of men worship, and the last being whose laws they want to keep are the laws of the God of heaven. They will not worship God, nor honor his name, from day to say, and nearly all the world are seeking for happiness by committing sins, breaking the law of God, and blaspheming his name and rejecting the only source whence happiness flows.
If we really understood that we could not obtain happiness by walking in the paths of sin and breaking the laws of God, we should then see the folly of it, every man and every woman would see that to obtain happiness we should go to work and perform the work of righteousness, and do the will of our Father in heaven, for we shall receive at His hand all the happiness blessings, glory, salvation, exaltation, and eternal lives that we ever do receive, either in time or eternity. (JD,4:192.)
