Bruce C. Hafen

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Bruce C. Hafen

Bruce C. Hafen is described in biographical records as an American religious leader, attorney and academic (born 1940). The selections gathered here touch on dating & courtship, love, sex. This profile brings the attributed quotations together with their available source information.

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“During the time of courtship, please be emotionally honest in the expression of affection. Sometimes you are not as careful as you might be about when, how, and to whom you express your feelings of affection. You must realize that the desire to express affection can be motivated by other things than true love.”

— Bruce C. Hafen

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Profile: American religious leader, attorney and academic
Life: born 1940
Quotes in this collection: 4

Life and work

Biographical records connect Bruce C. Hafen with Brigham Young University and University of Utah. This collection includes 4 quotations credited to Bruce C. Hafen. Each quotation page preserves its own citation, when supplied, so readers can follow the passage back to its stated context.

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“During the time of courtship, please be emotionally honest in the expression of affection. Sometimes you are not as careful as you might be about when, how, and to whom you express your feelings of affection. You must realize that the desire to express affection can be motivated by other things than true love.”

“The Gospel and Romantic Love,” Ensign, Oct. 1982, 67.

— Bruce C. Hafen

“When any of you—men or women—are given entrance to the heart of a trusting young friend, you stand on holy ground. In such a place you must be honest with yourself—and with your friend—about love and the expression of its symbols.”

“The Gospel and Romantic Love,” Ensign, Oct. 1982, 67.

— Bruce C. Hafen

“The great Mediator asks for our repentance not because we must ‘repay’ him in exchange for his paying our debt to justice, but because repentance initiates a developmental process that, with the Savior’s help, leads us along the path to a saintly character”

The Broken Heart [Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1989], 149;

— Bruce C. Hafen

“You may not have consciously chosen to have same-gender attraction, but you are faithfully choosing to deal with it. Sometimes that attraction may make you feel sinful, even though the attraction alone is not a sin if you do not act on it. Sometimes you may feel frustration or anger or simply a deep sadness about yourself. But as hard as same-gender attraction is, your feeling that attraction does not mean that your nature is flawed. Whenever the adversary tries to convince you that you are hopelessly “that way,” so that acting out your feelings is inevitable, he is lying. He is the father of lies.”

— Bruce C. Hafen