“Repenting means giving up all of our practices—personal,
family, ethnic, and national—that are contrary to the commandments of God.”
Dallin H. Oaks, Repentance and Change, General Conference, October 2003.
“Appreciation
for ethnic, cultural, or national heritage can be very wholesome and
beneficial, but it can also perpetuate patterns of life that should be set
aside by a devoted Latter-day Saint.” Richard G. Scott, Removing Barriers of Happiness,
General Conference, April 1998.
The Book of Mormon teaches that our
Savior “inviteth [all the children of men] to come unto him and partake of his
goodness; and he denieth none that come unto him, black and white, bond and
free, male and female; and he remembereth the heathen; and all are alike unto
God, both Jew and Gentile” (2 Ne. 26:33; see also Alma 5:49).
“He inviteth them all.” We
understand “male and female.” We also understand “black and white,” which means
all races.” Dallin H. Oaks, All Men Everywhere, April General Conference, 2003.
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