Spencer W. Kimball, Quorum of the Twelve Apostles

Fireside, September 1973

“No one who voluntarily rejects marriage here in mortality has any assurance of eternal life. Now, there is a great difference between one who doesn’t hear it, doesn’t know it, and one who rejects it, because that is inherent in the word; they couldn’t reject it if they didn’t know it. The day is coming soon when no one will need to die without a temple marriage. There are already fifteen temples, new ones being built. The day will come when there will be hundreds of temples all over this world, when there will not be a soul in the world, probably, who is more than a thousand miles away; and for a one-time experience in all one’s life, a thousand miles is not far to go. It wouldn’t be far to crawl if one knew what he was getting and what he was missing if he didn’t go.”