Family

"Our most important and powerful assignments are in the family. They are important because the family has the opportunity at the start of a child’s life to put feet firmly on the path home. Parents, brothers and sisters, grandparents, aunts and uncles are made more powerful guides and rescuers by the bonds of love that...are the very nature of a family."  - Henry B. Eyring, April 2010 Conf. Help Them on Their Way Home 

"The greatest work you will ever do will be within the walls of your own home."-President Harold B Lee, June 2002 Ensign, Father, Consider Your Ways

"Have faith in families.  The best we can do in one of our church auxiliaries can be done better in even the weakest of homes.  Have faith in families."  "Bless your children and your future home by learning as much as you can now."  - 

BY MARY N. COOK, 

FIRST COUNSELOR IN THE YOUNG WOMEN GENERAL PRESIDENCY, BROADCASTS-President Eyring, Alameda Stake Conference, 1992

“It is in the home that we form our attitudes, our deeply held beliefs. It is in the home that hope is fostered or destroyed. Our homes are to be more than sanctuaries; they should also be places where God’s Spirit can dwell, where the storm stops at the door, where love reigns and peace dwells.”  - President Monson, “Becoming Our Best Selves,” Ensign, Nov. 1999, 19

"We encourage our youth in every country to get an education. Even if at times it seems hopeless. With determination and faith in the Lord, you will be blessed with success. It is a dream well worth pursuing."  - Boyd K Packer, To Be Learned Is Good If..., October 1992 General Conference 

" A good marriage does not require a perfect man or a perfect woman. It only requires a man and a woman committed to strive together toward perfection."  - Elder Oaks, Divorce, April 2007 Conference

The concept that society has a strong interest in preserving marriages for the common good as well as the good of the couple and their children has been replaced for many by the idea that marriage is only a private relationship between consenting adults, terminable at the will of either.   - Elder Oaks, Divorce, April 2007 Conference

In contrast, modern prophets have warned that looking upon marriage “as a mere contract that may be entered into at pleasure … and severed at the first difficulty … is an evil meriting severe condemnation,” especially where children are made to suffer.   - Elder Oaks, Divorce, April 2007 Conference

I strongly urge you and those who advise you to face up to the reality that for most marriage problems, the remedy is not divorce but repentance. Often the cause is not incompatibility but selfishness. The first step is not separation but reformation. Divorce is not an all-purpose solution, and it often creates long-term heartache. A broad-based international study of the levels of happiness before and after “major life events” found that, on average, persons are far more successful in recovering their level of happiness after the death of a spouse than after a divorce. ³ Spouses who hope that divorce will resolve conflicts often find that it aggravates them, since the complexities that follow divorce—especially where there are children—generate new conflicts.  - Elder Oaks, Divorce, April 2007 Conference

In contrast, the couples who followed this bishop’s counsel and stayed together emerged with their marriages even stronger. That prospect began with their mutual commitment to keep the commandments, stay active in their Church attendance, scripture reading, and prayer, and to work on their own shortcomings.   - Elder Oaks, Divorce, April 2007 Conference