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).
