Elder M. Russell Ballard
"Mothers and Daughters"
April 2010 General Conference
"And so, my dear young women, with all my heart I urge you not to look to contemporary culture for your role models and mentors. Please look to your faithful mothers for a pattern to follow. Model yourselves afterthem, not after celebrities whose standards are not the Lord’s standards and whose values may not reflect an eternal perspective. Look to your mother. Learn from her strengths, her courage, and her faithfulness. Listen to her. She may not be a whiz at texting; she may not even have a Facebook page. But when it comes to matters of the heart and the things of the Lord, she has a wealth of knowledge."
Elder M. Russell Ballard
"Mothers and Daughters"
April 2010 General Conference
"When Satan wants to disrupt the work of the Lord, he doesn't poison the world’s peanut butter supply, thus bringing the Church’s missionary system to its collective knees. He doesn't send a plague of laryngitis to afflict the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. He doesn't legislate against green Jell-O or casseroles. When Satan truly wants to disrupt the work of the Lord, he attempts to confuse gender and attacks God’s plan for His spirit children. He works to drive a wedge of disharmony between a father and a mother. He entices children to be disobedient to their parents. He makes family home evening and family prayer inconvenient. He suggests family scripture study is impractical and not doable. That’s all it takes, because Satan knows that the surest and most effective way to disrupt the Lord’s work is to diminish the effectiveness of the family and the sanctity of the home."
Elder M. Russel Ballard
"The Sacred Responsibilities of Families"
August 19, 2003 Church Education Week Devotional
"Parents need to be consistent and loving, taking into account each child’s unique nature and disposition; setting appropriate limits to acceptable behavior, including modest dress, clean language, and dignified appearance; and then allowing each child his or her needed autonomy. Children are better prepared for the inevitable day when they leave home if parents “teach them correct principles and they [learn to] govern themselves”"
Elder M. Russell Ballard
"The Sacred Responsibilites of Families"
August 19, 2003 Church Education Week Devotional
"Parents, let’s listen and know what is important in the lives of our children. If we fail to listen, if we don’t try to understand their point of view, how can we expect them to come to us for guidance in making important decisions?"
Elder M. Russell Ballard
"The Sacred Responsibilites of Familes"
August 19,2003 Church Education Week Devotional
"As our families counsel together with the understanding that we are the family of God, we come to know that He loves us. We are precious to Him. He cares. He wants to help us. He wants to give us the support and help that we need in times of crisis. Much of that support and strength comes through counseling with one another ."
Elder M. Russell Ballard
"The Sacred Resposibilites of Families"
August 19, 2003 Church Education Week Devotional
I love this talk from Elder Ballard. I know I used it a lot for quotes, but I feel like this talk is meant for me. I feel very strongly about the roles of a father and a mother. I have very traditional views on the way the family should be organized. I love this talk because it supports the traditional family and gives us a little advice on how we can strengthen our family and teach our children.
"Mothers and Daughters"
April 2010 General Conference
"When Satan wants to disrupt the work of the Lord, he doesn't poison the world’s peanut butter supply, thus bringing the Church’s missionary system to its collective knees. He doesn't send a plague of laryngitis to afflict the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. He doesn't legislate against green Jell-O or casseroles. When Satan truly wants to disrupt the work of the Lord, he attempts to confuse gender and attacks God’s plan for His spirit children. He works to drive a wedge of disharmony between a father and a mother. He entices children to be disobedient to their parents. He makes family home evening and family prayer inconvenient. He suggests family scripture study is impractical and not doable. That’s all it takes, because Satan knows that the surest and most effective way to disrupt the Lord’s work is to diminish the effectiveness of the family and the sanctity of the home."
Elder M. Russel Ballard
"The Sacred Responsibilities of Families"
August 19, 2003 Church Education Week Devotional
"Parents need to be consistent and loving, taking into account each child’s unique nature and disposition; setting appropriate limits to acceptable behavior, including modest dress, clean language, and dignified appearance; and then allowing each child his or her needed autonomy. Children are better prepared for the inevitable day when they leave home if parents “teach them correct principles and they [learn to] govern themselves”"
Elder M. Russell Ballard
"The Sacred Responsibilites of Families"
August 19, 2003 Church Education Week Devotional
"Parents, let’s listen and know what is important in the lives of our children. If we fail to listen, if we don’t try to understand their point of view, how can we expect them to come to us for guidance in making important decisions?"
Elder M. Russell Ballard
"The Sacred Responsibilites of Familes"
August 19,2003 Church Education Week Devotional
"As our families counsel together with the understanding that we are the family of God, we come to know that He loves us. We are precious to Him. He cares. He wants to help us. He wants to give us the support and help that we need in times of crisis. Much of that support and strength comes through counseling with one another ."
Elder M. Russell Ballard
"The Sacred Resposibilites of Families"
August 19, 2003 Church Education Week Devotional
I love this talk from Elder Ballard. I know I used it a lot for quotes, but I feel like this talk is meant for me. I feel very strongly about the roles of a father and a mother. I have very traditional views on the way the family should be organized. I love this talk because it supports the traditional family and gives us a little advice on how we can strengthen our family and teach our children.
“We have the responsibility to stand strong with a shield of faith against the fiery darts of the adversary. We are role models to the world, protecting God-given, inalienable rights and freedoms. We stand in defense of our homes and our families. … How will you resist [Satan’s] aggressive tactics? Put on the whole armor of God.”
Elder Robert D. Hales
"Stand Strong in Holy Places"
April 2013 General Conference
“Remember, heaven is filled with those who have this in common: They are forgiven. And they forgive.”
“Just as honest toil gives rest its sweetness, wholesome recreation is the friend and steadying companion of work. Music, literature, art, dance, drama, athletics—all can provide entertainment to enrich one’s life and further consecrate it. At the same time, it hardly needs to be said that much of what passes for entertainment today is coarse, degrading, violent, mind-numbing, and time wasting. Ironically, it sometimes takes hard work to find wholesome leisure. When entertainment turns from virtue to vice, it becomes a destroyer of the consecrated life.”
Elder D. Todd Christofferson
Reflections on a Consecrated Life"
November 2010 Ensign
"The depth of the love of parents for their children cannot be measured. It is like no other relationship. It exceeds concern for life itself. The love of a parent for a child is continuous and transcends heartbreak and disappointment. All parents hope and pray that their children will make wise decisions. Children who are obedient and responsible bring to their parents unending pride and satisfaction."
President James E. Faust
"Dear Are the Sheep that Have Wandered"
April 2003 General Conference
"Satan’s pervasive snares are increasing, and raising children is becoming harder because of this. Therefore, parents need to do the very best they can and to enlist the help that Church service and activity can provide. If parents misbehave and stray even temporarily, some of their children may be prone to take license from that example."
President James E. Faust
"Dear Are the Sheep that Have Wandered"
April 2003 General Conference
"Parents must bring light and truth into their homes by one family prayer, one scripture study session, one family home evening, one book read aloud, one song, and one family meal at a time. They know that the influence of righteous, conscientious, persistent, daily parenting is among the most powerful and sustaining forces for good in the world. The health of any society, the happiness of its people, their prosperity, and their peace all find common roots in the teaching of children in the home."
Elder L. Tom Perry
"Mother's Teaching Children in the Home"
April 2010 General Conference
"The depth of the love of parents for their children cannot be measured. It is like no other relationship. It exceeds concern for life itself. The love of a parent for a child is continuous and transcends heartbreak and disappointment. All parents hope and pray that their children will make wise decisions. Children who are obedient and responsible bring to their parents unending pride and satisfaction."
President James E. Faust
"Dear Are the Sheep that Have Wandered"
April 2003 General Conference
"Satan’s pervasive snares are increasing, and raising children is becoming harder because of this. Therefore, parents need to do the very best they can and to enlist the help that Church service and activity can provide. If parents misbehave and stray even temporarily, some of their children may be prone to take license from that example."
President James E. Faust
"Dear Are the Sheep that Have Wandered"
April 2003 General Conference
"Parents must bring light and truth into their homes by one family prayer, one scripture study session, one family home evening, one book read aloud, one song, and one family meal at a time. They know that the influence of righteous, conscientious, persistent, daily parenting is among the most powerful and sustaining forces for good in the world. The health of any society, the happiness of its people, their prosperity, and their peace all find common roots in the teaching of children in the home."
Elder L. Tom Perry
"Mother's Teaching Children in the Home"
April 2010 General Conference
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