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25 years ago
"Marriage is perhaps the most vital of all decisions and has the most far-reaching effects, for it has to do not only with immediate happiness, but eternal joys," President Spencer W. Kimball told a capacity crowd of BYU students and others in the Marriott Center on Tuesday, Sept. 7, 1976.
As recorded in the Sept. 11, 1976, Church News, he continued, "In selecting a companion for life and for eternity, certainly the most careful planning and thinking and praying and fasting should be done to be sure that of all decisions, this one must not be wrong."
He later added, "While every young man and young woman will seek with all diligence and prayerfulness to find a mate with whom life can be most compatible and beautiful, yet it is certain that almost any good man and good woman can have great happiness and a successful marriage if they are willing to pay the price."
President Kimball concluded, "Every divorce is the result of selfishness on the part of one or the other or both parties to a marriage contract. . . . For every friction, there is a cause, and whenever there is unhappiness, each should search self to find the cause or at least that portion of the cause which originated in that self."
