Why Standards?

Standards help you know how well you are preparing to live with your Father in Heaven...By comparing your behavior and thoughts with your Father's standards, you are in a better position to govern yourselves and make the right choices. God's commandments (standards) are constant, unwavering, and dependable. As you adhere to them, you will receive countless blessings from heaven—including the gift of eternal life.

For the Strength of Youth
"Why Standards"

You cannot do wrong and feel right.

You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible! Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure. Satan would have you believe that happiness comes only as you surrender to his enticement to self-indulgence. We need only to look at the shattered lives of those who violate God's laws to know why Satan is called the "father of all lies" (2 Nephi 2:18).

For the Strength of Youth
First Presidency Introduction

However out of step...

"However out of step we may seem, however much the standards are belittled, however much others yield, we will not yield, we cannot yield."

Elder Boyd K. Packer

Ensign Nov. 2003, p. 26

He needs us today...

"He needs us today. He needs us to speak up for what is right, even when doing so is unpopular."

Sheri L. Dew
Ensign Nov. 1997 p. 93