We are shutting the door against the God whose sons and daughters we are." President Hinckley writes of what he calls "the secularization of America," and observes: "The single most substantial factor in the degeneration of the values and morals of our society is that we as a nation are forsaking the Almighty, and I fear that He will begin to forsake us. "There is a serious unsteadiness in our country's stance in terms of morality, ethics, principles, and behavior." In too many ways, we have substituted human sophistry for the wisdom of the Almighty. "We are forgetting God, whose commandments we have neglected and in some cases forgotten, and which we seem reluctant - or too undisciplined - to obey. Our spiritual power is sapped by a floodtide of pornography, by a debilitating epidemic of the use of narcotics and drugs that destroy both body and mind, and by a declining moral standard that is alarming and devastating to relationships, families, and the integrity of our nation as a whole. We spend billions of our resources in litigation one against another. But there is trouble in the land," he writes. "For many reasons, I proclaim that this is the greatest age the world has known.
President Hinckley notes that he is not one to believe that all was good in the long ago and that all is bad today. Now his insightful observations are available to readers of various religious convictions.President Hinckley expresses concern that many people have abandoned time-honored and proven virtues, namely: Love, honesty, morality, civility, learning, forgiveness and mercy, thrift and industry, gratitude, optimism and faith.
Standing for Something - 10 Neglected Virtues that Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes, published by Times Books, New York, N.Y., &#copy Random House Inc., is filled with wisdom and insight for which President Hinckley is known and loved by Latter-day Saints. Hinckley wrote it for a national audience, not for just members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. But this book is significantly different from any other: President Gordon B. A new book will soon be in bookstores nationwide and, in some cases, internationally.
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