“Lazy and an Idolatrous People”

Joseph F. McConkie, Robert L. Millet

As virtue cleaves to virtue, so vice cleaves to vice; as honest toil is an invitation to the Spirit of the Lord, so idleness allures the spirit of the adversary. idleness tends to breed thievery and plundering, which in turn bring the shedding of blood, fighting, and even wars (see Enos 1:20). Such are the fruits of idolatrous worship-worship that requires neither humility nor righteousness, but rather satisfies some supposed whim or appetite and thus justifies such rituals in living as satiate a person’s carnal appetites and desires.

Doctrinal Commentary on the Book of Mormon, Vol. 2

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