"A very real danger of not enthusiastically supporting Children and Youth is the unintended message we would send to our children that the Church is a buffet where we can simply pick and choose which practices and commandments we want to follow and somehow opt out of the rest without consequence.
"Elder Neal A. Maxwell (1926–2004) of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles powerfully taught, 'What in you is merely casualness about Christianity may, in your children, become hostility; for what you have not defended, your children may reject angrily.'"
- Steven J. Lund, Young Men General President, Liahona, March 2022. quoting Neal A. Maxwell, Neal A. Maxwell, “Why Not Now?,” Ensign, Nov. 1974, 12.
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/liahona/2022/03/united-states-and-canada-section/how-the-children-and-youth-program-strengthens-families?lang=eng
Neal A. Maxwell, “Why Not Now?,” October 1974 general conference, https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/1974/10/why-not-now?lang=eng
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