Personal Righteousness

I was privileged to teach yesterday and I'd just like to post some quotes used in the lesson on the Ten Virgins.

Someone proposed a serious question to me a few years ago by asking, "What is the most important item to have stored in your year's supply?" My response was seriously given - personal righteousness.

--Marion G Romney, Ensign, April 7, 1981, 6

In the parable, oil can be purchased at the market. In our lives the oil of preparedness is accumulated drop by drop in righteous living. Attendance at sacrament meetings adds oil to our lamps, drop by drop over the years. Fasting, family prayer, home teaching, control of bodily appetites, preaching the gospel, studying the scriptures, each act of dedication and obedience is a drop added

to our store. Deeds of kindness, payment of offerings and tithes, chaste thoughts and actions, marriage in the covenant for eternity, these, too, contribute importantly to the oil with which we can at midnight refuel our exhausted lamps.

--Spencer W Kimball, Faith Precedes the Miracle, 256