Russell M. Nelson
General Conference, October 2001
In the healthy family, first and best, we can learn to listen, forgive,
praise, and to rejoice in the achievements of others. There also we can
learn to tame our egos, work, repent, and love. In families with
spiritual perspective, yesterday need not hold tomorrow hostage. If we
sometimes act the fool, loving families know this is not our last act;
the curtain is not rung down.
Neal A. Maxwell
General Conference, April 1994
Because love is the great commandment, it ought to be at the center of all and everything we do in our own family, in our Church callings, and in our livelihood. Love is the healing balm that repairs rifts in personal and family relationships. It is the bond that unites families, communities, and nations.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
General Conference, October 2009
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.
M. Russell Ballard
General Conference, October 2005
In the routine of life, we often take our families—our parents and children and siblings—for granted. But in times of danger and need and change, there is no question that what we care about most is our families! It will be even more so when we leave this life and enter into the spirit world. Surely the first people we will seek to find there will be father, mother, spouse, children, and siblings.
M. Russell Ballard
General Conference, October 2005
As taught in this scripture, an eternal bond doesn’t just happen as a
result of sealing covenants we make in the temple. How we conduct
ourselves in this life will determine what we will be in all the
eternities to come. To receive the blessings of the sealing that our
Heavenly Father has given to us, we have to keep the commandments and
conduct ourselves in such a way that our families will want to live with
us in the eternities. The family relationships we have here on this
earth are important, but they are much more important for their effect
on our families for generations in mortality and throughout all
eternity.
Robert D. Hales
General Conference, October 1996
Parents are to be living examples of “kindness, and pure knowledge, which … greatly enlarge the soul. Each mother and father should lay aside selfish interests and avoid any thought of hypocrisy, physical force, or evil speaking.
Parents soon learn that each child has an inborn yearning to
be free. Each individual wants to make his or her own way. No one wants
to be restrained, even by a well-intentioned parent.
Russell M. Nelson
General Conference, October 2001
My promise to you who pray and serve the Lord cannot be that you will have every blessing you may wish for yourself and your family. But I can promise you that the Savior will draw close to you and bless you and your family with what is best. You will have the comfort of His love and feel the answer of His drawing closer as you reach out your arms in giving service to others. As you bind up the wounds of those in need and offer the cleansing of His Atonement to those who sorrow in sin, the Lord's power will sustain you. His arms are outstretched with yours to succor and bless the children of our Heavenly Father, including those in your family.
Henry B. Eyring
General Conference, April 2013
Elder David A. Bednar
General Conference, October 2009
Ezra Taft Benson
Quoted in the Ensign, August 2008
Take time to be a real friend to your children.
Ezra Taft Benson
Quoted in the Ensign, August 2008
Discipline with severity, discipline with cruelty inevitably leads not to correction but to resentment and bitterness.
Gordon B. Hinckley
Quoted in the Ensign, August 2008
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