Deseret News | Sister Dalton calls for return to moral purity

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Sister Dalton calls for return to moral purity

hbeckett | 9:57 p.m. Sept. 13, 2009

thank you Sister Dalton

IDA | 10:26 p.m. Sept. 13, 2009

This is right on Sister Dalton. This would greatly help our socetiy and our world. If all our leadres are and were upright rightoeus men,or women. Weather they be church, or world leaders.I commend you for your call to Moral Purity!!!!

Karl | 12:24 a.m. Sept. 14, 2009

I am soo impressed with President Dalton's talk at the CES Fireside on Sunday about the importance of Virtue, chastity and the effects that it has both on men and women, also on how virture is a source of power in the priesthood, righteous decision making, an entitlement to revelation by the Holy Ghost and how what our country need most now is not a social reform, but a moral reform. It is soo true, how many broken homes could be mended or prevented by a call to chastity? how many unborn children could be saved from death and raised in good homes through virtue? How healthy could our country be physically if more virtue and chasitity was practice? If there is one thing that is missing from Obama's long list of change, it is a return to Virtue, he should add "America's return to Virtue" on the top!!!

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Benjamin Lantz | 12:38 a.m. Sept. 14, 2009

This was a fireside well worth going to. Easily one of the most best, most needed talks directed at young adults I had heard in quite some time. Thank you Sister Dalton and the CES as a whole.

Ernest T. Bass | 8:54 a.m. Sept. 14, 2009

Unrealistic.

Marie | 9:09 a.m. Sept. 14, 2009

To Ernest, I will say : "Yes you can".

John Pack Lambert | 10:24 a.m. Sept. 14, 2009

This was a much needed talk on the power of purity, on the need to focus on what matters most, and related subjects.
I have realized that there are many things I need to change.

Haleigh Van Eerden | 12:38 p.m. Sept. 14, 2009

I was at this fireside, and t was amazing! It is not unrealistic Ernest. Every person just needs to look at their own life and find the way that they can make this return. It is always possible.

My2Cents | 2:05 p.m. Sept. 14, 2009

This is a lofty goal, but for the vast majority of us, this is unrealistic.

John Pack Lambert | 2:19 p.m. Sept. 14, 2009

This was a great talk and made my think long and hard about thing I may have done (or didn't) do that caused the break-up of my first marriage. We all can do better in our marriages and relationships.

Re: JPL | 4:08 p.m. Sept. 14, 2009

Can we hear your testimony just one more time Please, oh please.

Yes, I'm a Realist | 4:09 p.m. Sept. 14, 2009

I thought the talk was very unhelpful, naive and VERY unrealistic. Utah has huge problems in teen pregnancy and pornography addiction. Her talk painted a picture that these problems do not exist in the Church.

RE: My2Cents | 2:05 p.m. | 4:15 p.m. Sept. 14, 2009

OUR Goals need to be lofty.

That's how you reach the highest heights.

What good has comes from giving up before you try?

socal Gal | 4:28 p.m. Sept. 14, 2009

This is exactly why Utah leads the nation in anti-depressant use. Unrealistic, unattainable goals and the pressure to be something that most people in the real world can't. I feel sorry for most women in the Church. They are struggling to do the best that they can under very difficult circumstances. Talks like this just make them feel more inadequate.

Anonymous | 4:40 p.m. Sept. 14, 2009

This is exactly why there is such a high suicide rate among the youth of the Church and why there is such a high anti-depressant use among LDS women. This talk didn't talk about solutions, it just added more unrealistic expectations and pressure to our youth and the women of the Church.

John Pack Lambert | 4:47 p.m. Sept. 14, 2009

"No success in life can compensate for failure in the home".

I now know, too late, the consequences and meaning of this. Marriage is the most important and sacred thing in this world. I blew it.

a woman | 5:15 p.m. Sept. 14, 2009

If talks like this makes a woman feel inadequate, then she has not built a 2-Way relationship with her Heavenly Father. Who cares what anyone says. Read the scriptures, learn to pray sincerely and mightily, draw close to the author of Truth, and don't try to run faster than you can. And as the BoM reads, cloak yourself in robe of charity. Stop looking to your neighbor for an example when you have Christ.

cop-out | 5:38 p.m. Sept. 14, 2009

"Unrealistic?" Are you kidding me? Have a little self control . . . or choose not to, but don't criticize those who give inspired counsel on how to avoid all the heartbreak inherent in our amoral society. Look at the people who live by Sister Dalton's counsel, and then look at those who don't. You'll see which path is the harder, sadder one to walk.

NJP | 6:00 p.m. Sept. 14, 2009

Unrealistic?? Is pornography, filth, degradation, and immorality realistic?? You have got to be kidding. Talks like Sister Dalton's should be heard and heard and heard.

Anonymous | 6:39 p.m. Sept. 14, 2009

For those who have already blown it, there is repentance. It is not too late. That is what the Lord's mercy is all about. Don't be cynical, be humble and get back on track. Peace of mind, body and soul awaits.

Gayle | 6:58 p.m. Sept. 14, 2009

She is so distanced from society that she cannot properly communicate anything. It's easy to be rich and have agreat postiion in the church and spout of your mouth about waht others should do. This girl does not even have a clue about life and the challenges, she takes her lilly white view from SLC and thinks it makes sense to others? She does not have a clue.

Anonymous | 7:00 p.m. Sept. 14, 2009

I pray for mormons and hope you find the Lord and peace that you all yearn for.

ramper | 7:24 p.m. Sept. 14, 2009

Those who consider striving for perfection unrealistic need to know one can build a whole lot of worthiness through the effort. That's commendable in and of itself and a heck of a lot better than not even putting in the effort.

A Man's Perspective | 7:40 p.m. Sept. 14, 2009

Thank you, Sister Dalton! I am glad that you included Priesthood holders and spoke to them, as well. The men need to hear from the Church's women leaders as well, and the men are not spoken to very often from the women leaders in the Church, and it is great to see that take place.

Californian #1@94131 | 10:06 p.m. Sept. 14, 2009

To those (especially those who profess to be Christian) who say, "Unrealistic!" -- how realistic do you think these words are: "Love thy neighbor as thyself" and "Be thou perfect even as your Father who is in heaven is perfect"?

Christ said, “If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.” And the father of the stricken child begged, “Lord, I believe, help thou mine unbelief.”

Religion and our relationship with God are not just about today’s realities and where we are now, but about eternal possibilities and where we can be. Whether we get from here to there depends not only on Him, but on us and how much we want to.

SFC RET DENNIS | 7:02 a.m. Sept. 15, 2009

socal Gal | 4:28 p.m. Sept. 14, 2009 So hat you and people like you are saying is that we sould just blow off God and do what ever we please and then be punished by God when we die for violating his commandments

SFC RET DENNIS | 8:02 a.m. Sept. 15, 2009

As you can tell, I'm pretty clueless when it comes to these things.

SFC RET DENNIIS | 7:00 a.m. Sept. 16, 2009

SFC RET DENNIS | 8:02 a.m. Sept. 15, 2009 what is it with you, do you get some sort of joy out of usin someone ells name. This last comment was not from me.

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