All of us experience temptations.
So did the Savior, but He “gave no heed unto them” (D&C 20:22).
Similarly, we do not have to yield simply because a temptation
surfaces.
We may want to, but we don’t have to.
An incredulous female
friend asked a young adult woman, committed to living the law of
chastity, how it was possible that she had never “slept with anybody.”
“Don’t you want to?” the friend asked.
The young woman thought:
“The question intrigued me, because it was so utterly beside the point. …
Mere wanting is hardly a proper guide for moral conduct.”
"Moral Discipline" D. Todd Christofferson General Conference October 2009
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