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“A home is much more than a house built of lumber, brick, or stone. A home is made of love, sacrifice, and respect. We are responsible for the homes we build. We must build wisely, for eternity is not a short voyage. There will be calm and wind, sunlight and shadows, joy and sorrow. But if we really try, our home can be a bit of heaven here on earth. The thoughts we think, the deeds we do, the lives we live not only influence the success of our earthly journey, they also mark the way to our eternal goals.”

Thomas S. Monson | "Heavenly Homes, Forever Families", World Wide Leadership Training February 2006

Topics: Family, Goals

Therefore, whenever anything so basic as the eternal family is imperiled, we have a solemn obligation to speak out, lest there be critical damage to the family institution by those who seem to be deliberately destructive of it.

Spencer W. Kimball | 1980–O:4, Spencer W. Kimball, Families Can Be Eternal

Topics: Family

The assurance that the resurrection will include an opportunity to be with our family members – husband, wife, parents, brothers and sisters, children, and grandchildren – is a powerful encouragement for us to fulfill our family responsibilities in mortality. It helps us live together in love in this life in anticipation of joyful reunions and associations in the next. – and, finally – The assurance of immortality also helps us bear the mortal separations involved in the death of our loved ones. Every one of us has wept at a death, grieved through a funeral, or stood in pain at a graveside. I am surely one who has. We should all praise God for the assured resurrection that makes our mortal separations temporary and gives us the hope and strength to carry on.

Elder Dallin H. Oaks | “Resurrection,” General Conference, April 1, 2000

Topics: Covenants, Family, Mortality, Resurrection

“The question is sometimes asked by younger priesthood holders, ‘Where do I place my greatest priorities—to the Church, to my family, or to my profession?’ I have answered that question by emphasizing that heads of families have four major responsibilities. Certainly the first is to the home and family. There should be no question about this. A man may succeed in business or his Church calling, but if he fails in his home he will face eternity in disappointment. … Home is the place where the Lord intended a father’s greatest influence to be felt.”

Ezra Taft Benson | Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson, 509–10

Topics: Being Called & Callings, Family, Priorities

“No nobler work in this world can be performed by any mother than to rear and love the children with whom God has blessed her. That is her duty.”

David O. McKay

Topics: Family, Mothers & Motherhood, Parenting

“There exists a righteous unity between the temple and the home. Understanding the eternal nature of the temple will draw you to your family; understanding the eternal nature of the family will draw you to the temple.”

Elder Gary E. Stevenson

Topics: Family, Temples

“The body needs food, but the mind needs people.”

Velma Wallis | Two Old Women (Fairbanks, AK: Epicenter Press, 1993), 65.

Topics: Family, Friendship, Loneliness

“…Attend the temple on a regular basis. Make sure in your planning that you include a visit to the temple as often as personal circumstances will allow. I promise you that your personal spirituality, relationship with your husband or wife and family relationships will be blessed and strengthened as you regularly attend the temple.”

Howard W. Hunter | Church News, Sept. 24, 1994)

Topics: Family, Personal Revelation, Temples

“A home with a loving and loyal husband and wife is the supreme setting in which children can be reared in love and righteousness and in which the spiritual and physical needs of children can be met.”

Elder David A. Bednar | Marriage Is Essential to His Eternal Plan

Topics: Family, Marriage

“Now a word to the single parents. … [You] carry exhausting burdens in fighting the daily battles that go with rearing children and seeing that their needs are met. This is a lonely duty. But you need not be entirely alone. There are many, ever so many in this Church who would reach out to you with sensitivity and understanding. They do not wish to intrude where they are not wanted. But their interest is genuine and sincere, and they bless their own lives as they bless your lives and those of your children. Welcome their help. They need to give it for their own sakes as well as for your sake.”

Gordon B. Hinckley | Teachings of the the Presidents of the Church: Gordon B Hinckley

Topics: Family, Parenting, Trials