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“Reproving with sharpness thus meant reproving with exactness and keen perception, not necessarily severely.”
― John Gee, Saving Faith: How Families Protect, Sustain, and Encourage Faith

“All three meanings [of faith] are implicit in the expression "faith in Jesus Christ," which implies believing he exists and is the son of God, trusting in him and his atonement, and being loyal to him by keeping the covenants we have made with him and that bind us to him.”
― John Gee, Saving Faith: How Families Protect, Sustain, and Encourage Faith

“For most people, media portrayals of the positive and satisfying sexual life of singles are disconnected with reality as they know it.”
― John Gee, Saving Faith: How Families Protect, Sustain, and Encourage Faith

“...the data show "a nearly linear association" between pornography use among adolescents and lack of religiosity. ...the importance of religion for daily life, however, correlates with avoiding pornography. Data from other surveys show that the use of pornography "deadens religious impulses.”
― John Gee, Saving Faith: How Families Protect, Sustain, and Encourage Faith

“...nearly all studies consistently show that couples who live together before they marry are more, not less, likely to later divorce than couples who did not live together before their weddings.”
― John Gee, Saving Faith: How Families Protect, Sustain, and Encourage Faith

“...study found that those who attend church regularly tend to be happier and more satisfied with life than those who do not.”
― John Gee, Saving Faith: How Families Protect, Sustain, and Encourage Faith

“The Church is a group of individuals who have made sacred covenants with God through his divine authority. When individuals cease to keep those covenants, they remove themselves from the Church whether or not the Church formally removes them from the rolls. We need to help youth, young adults, and ourselves make sacred covenants in the waters of baptism and the temple. We need to remember those covenants by reviewing records of those covenants (scripture study) and communicating with the author of those covenants (prayer). We need to form our families by covenants and center them in covenants. We need to renew those covenants by regularly partaking of the sacrament. We need to keep those covenants and repent when we stray from those covenants. If we keep our covenants, the statistics will take care of themselves.”
― John Gee, Saving Faith: How Families Protect, Sustain, and Encourage Faith