President Gordon B. Hinckley
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"Peril is not a new condition for the human family."
"Revelation tells us that there was a war in heaven," a desperately difficult struggle in which good triumphed over evil and the whole human family was on the Lord's side.
"I cannot understand why so many have betrayed in life the decision they once made when the great war occurred in heaven. But it is evident that the contest between good and evil, which began with that war, has never ended. It has gone on, and on, and on to the present.
"I think our Father must weep because so many of his children through the ages have exercised the agency he gave them and have chosen to walk the road of evil rather than good."
Notwithstanding the great evil of these times, it has been and now is a glorious season.
"A new day has come in the work of the Almighty. That work has grown and strengthened and moved across the Earth. It has now touched for good the lives of millions, and this is only the beginning."
"The human race has lived in peril from the time before the Earth was created," yet the restored gospel carries God's plan of happiness for his children centered in Christ's Atonement.
With that understanding, "we must cast out self-righteousness and rise above petty self-interest . . . . We can live and work with others, respecting their beliefs and admiring their virtues . . . . Without surrendering any of our doctrine, we can be neighborly, we can be helpful, we can be kind and generous."
