“To whomever we give our heart, this person can harm us or abandon us. The spirits of wickedness are constantly putting evil thoughts into our feelings of love and preying on us. Divine love is boundless and all-encompassing, whereas we are attached to men and the lifeless things of this world. Our hearts have been imprisoned by the things of this world, and if those things are taken away from us, our hearts are saddened and they suffer.
One must love God first, and only then can one love one’s closest of kin and neighbors. We must not be as idols to one another, for such is not the will of God.”
– Elder Thaddeus from Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives