FAMILY
"Happiness in family life is most likely to be achieved when
founded upon the teachings of the Lord Jesus Christ."
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The family unit does
more than bind individuals together for a time and period on this earth.
Families are meant to be eternal. We are designed to love, nurture, teach, and
support one another, not only in our secular responsibilities and hobbies, but
more importantly in our spiritual goals and assignments. A family should unite
in one purpose and desire: to return to our Father in Heaven by living worthy
of his earthly blessings and preparing to make sacred and everlasting covenants
with him. In a world where we can be pulled in many different confusing and
immoral directions, the family is where we know truth, where we know peace, and
where we know how to follow God’s commandments regardless of outside
influences.
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"How do we protect
and preserve and strengthen our homes and families in a world pulling so hard
in opposite directions? Create meaningful family bonds that give your children
an identity stronger than what they can find with their peer group or at school
or anyplace else. "
Boyd K Packer / What Matters Most Is What Lasts Longest / October 2005 General Conference
"Our family-centered
perspective should make Latter-day Saints strive to be the best parents in the
world. It should give us enormous respect for our children, who truly are our
spiritual siblings, and it should cause us to devote whatever time is necessary
to strengthen our families. Indeed, nothing is more critically connected to
happiness—both our own and that of our children—than how well we love and
support one another within the family."
Boyd K Packer / What Matters Most Is What Lasts Longest / October 2005 General Conference
"In providing
out-of-home activities for the family, we must use care; otherwise, we could be
like a father determined to provide everything for his family. He devotes every
energy to that end and succeeds; only then does he discover that what they
needed most, to be together as a family, has been neglected. And he reaps
sorrow in place of contentment."
Boyd K Packer / Parents in Zion / October 1998 General Conference
"The creation of life
is a great responsibility for a married couple. It is the challenge of
mortality to be a worthy and responsible parent. Neither man nor woman can bear
children alone. It was meant that children have two parents—both a father and a
mother. No other pattern or process can replace this one."
Boyd K Packer / Anda Little Child Shall Lead Them / April 2012 General Conference
"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.”
Henry B Eyring / Help Them on Their Way Home / April 2010 General Conference
"But another crucial
source for that feeling of being loved is love from other children in the
family. Consistent care of brothers and sisters for each other will come only
with persistent effort by parents and the help of God."
Henry B Eyring /
Families under Covenant / April 2012 General Conference
“We
build deep and loving family relationships by doing simple things together,
like family dinner and family home evening and by just having fun together. In
family relationships love is really spelled t-i-m-e, time. Taking time for each
other is the key for harmony at home. We talk with, rather than about, each
other. We learn from each other, and we appreciate our differences as well as
our commonalities. We establish a divine bond with each other as we approach
God together through family prayer, gospel study, and Sunday worship.”
Dieter F Uchtdorf / Of Things that Matter Most / October 2010 General Conference
"Brothers and
sisters, the most important cause of
our lifetime is our families. If we will devote ourselves to this cause, we
will improve every other aspect of our lives and will become, as a people and
as a church, an example and a beacon for all peoples of the earth."
Elder Ballard / Thatthe Lost May Be Found / April 2012 General Conference
"Feeling
the security and constancy of love from a spouse, a parent, or a child is a
rich blessing. Such love nurtures and sustains faith in God. Such love is a
source of strength and casts out fear. Such love is the desire of every human
soul.”
David A Bednar / More Diligent and Concerned at Home / October 2009 General Conference
"Feeling the security
and constancy of love from a spouse, a parent, or a child is a rich
blessing. Such love nurtures and sustains faith in God. Such love is a
source of strength and casts out fear. Such love is the desire of every human
soul.”
David A Bednar / More Diligent and Concerned at Home / October 2009 General Conference