Exodus 35:29 Offer the Lord a willing heart

Elder M. Russell Ballard:

“Mortality, then, is the time to test our ability to understand our Heavenly Father’s plan and, of course, our willingness to be obedient. Obedience is essential to obtain exaltation and eternal life.” (“Answers to Life’s Questions” General Conference April 1995.)

President Boyd K. Packer:

“There is something very liberating when an individual determines of his or her own free will to be obedient to our Father and our God and expresses that willingness to Him in prayer.” (“Cleansing the Inner Vessel”. General Conference Oct 2010.)

Exodus 33:7 Sin separates us from the Lord

Elder Bednar:

“The promised blessing for honoring [the] covenant [of baptism] is that we may always have His Spirit to be with us (see D&C 20:77). . . .

“. . . Precisely because the promised blessing is that we may always have His Spirit to be with us, we should attend to and learn from the choices and influ­ences that separate us from the Holy Spirit.

“The standard is clear. If something we think, see, hear, or do distances us from the Holy Ghost, then we should stop thinking, seeing, hearing, or doing that thing. If that which is intended to entertain, for example, alienates us from the Holy Spirit, then certainly that type of entertainment is not for us. Because the Spirit cannot abide that which is vulgar, crude, or immodest, then clearly such things are not for us. Because we estrange the Spirit of the Lord when we engage in activities we know we should shun, then such things definitely are not for us” (“That We May Always Have His Spirit to Be with Us,” Ensign or Liahona, May 2006, 29–30).

Exodus 20:1 Ten Commandments are still commandments today.

President Thomas S. Monson:

“Although the world has changed, the laws of God remain constant. They have not changed; they will not change. The Ten Commandments are just that—commandments. They are not suggestions. They are every bit as requisite today as they were when God gave them to the children of Israel” (“Stand in Holy Places,” Ensign or Liahona, Nov. 2011, 83).

Exodus 19:10-13 We need to be clean to enter the Lord's presence.

Sister Dalton:

“Your personal virtue will not only enable you to have the constant companionship of the Holy Ghost, but it will also enable you to make the decisions that will help you be worthy to enter the temple and there make and keep sacred covenants and receive the blessings of exaltation. Prepare yourselves spiritually, and qualify to enter into our Heavenly Father’s presence. Prepare now for the temple, the mountain of the Lord. Never allow the goal of the temple to be out of your sight. Walk into His presence in purity and virtue, and receive His blessings – ‘even all that he hath’. (“Come Let Us Go Up to the Mountain of the Lord,” Ensign, May 2009, 122)