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Assistant to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles No one ever gets off the straight and narrow way at right angles, and no sin is born fully grown. Every sin is a minor one to begin with. Percentage-wise, very few people will ever lose their blessings because they have become murderers or sons of perdition. As someone has pointed out, it isn't the giant redwoods that trip us up as we walk through the forest, it's the vines and the underbrush. And one of the most damaging sins and one that gives greatest strength to our death instinct is the violation of that great revelation given 132 years ago called the Word of Wisdom. Some violators of this law tend to excuse themselves because it appears to be such a small thing. It seems like just a little disobedience, a little caffeine, a little nicotine, a little friendly indulgence in alcohol. Yet these are the springboards to disease, broken homes, immorality, disloyalty to God, physical death, and the death of many of our eternal interests.
Elder Sterling W. Sill
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And now on the matter of morality: May I cite two significant sources: "The finest piece of mechanism in all the universe," said Dr. David Starr Jordan, of Stanford University, "is the brain man and the mind which is its manifestation . . . The sober man is the one who protects his brain from all that would do harm . . . The Twentieth Century . . . will be strenuous, complex . . . [and] will ask for men of instant decision, men whose mental equipment is all in order . . . No one can afford to look downward for his enjoyments . . . The pleasures of vice are mere illusions, tricks of the nervous system, and each time these tricks are played it is more and more difficult for the mind to tell the truth. Such deceptions come through drunkenness and narcoticism. In greater or less degree all nerve-affecting drugs produce it: nicotine, caffeine, opium, cocaine, and [all] the rest, strong or weak. Habitual use of any of these is a physical vice. A physical vice becomes a moral vice, and . . . to cultivate vice is to render our mind incapable of normal action . . . One and all, these various drugs . . . tend to give the impression of a power or a pleasure . . . which we do not possess . . . One and all their function is to force the nervous system to lie. One and all the result of their habitual use is to render the nervous system incapable of ever telling the truth . . . Indulgence . . . destroys wisdom and virtue; it destroys faith and hope and love . . . Whatever you do, count all the cost."
Elder Richard L. Evans
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Wisdom goes beyond the letter of the law. Generally when we speak of the Word of Wisdom, we are talking about tea, coffee, tobacco, and liquor, and all of the fringe things even though they might be detrimental are not included in the technical interpretation of the Word of Wisdom. I never drink any of the cola drinks and my personal hope would be that no one would. However, they are not included in the Word of Wisdom in its technical application. I quote from a letter from the secretary to the First Presidency, 'But the spirit of the Word of Wisdom would be violated by the drinking or eating of anything that contained a habit-forming drug.' With reference to the cola drinks, the Church has never officially taken any attitude on this at but I personally do not put them in the class as with the tea and coffee because the Lord specifically mentioned them [the hot drinks].
President Spencer W. Kimball
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Bishop Keith B. McMullin
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Mike Wallace: No alchohol, no tobacco, no coffee, no tea, not even caffeinated soft drinks? President Hinckley: Right. Mike Wallace: Eat meat sparingly, exercise . . President Hinckley: Right. It's wonderful!
President Gordon B. Hinckley
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