Below is a video from the Church called "What Matters Most" in which President Thomas S. Monson
counsels us to spend time with, cherish, and express love to the people
we hold dear.
Before you play the movie you will need to turn off the
background music in the upper right hand corner.
Great
Family and Marriage Quotes
“No other success can compensate for failure in the
home.” David O. McKay
“Children are more influenced by sermons you act than by
sermons you preach.” ~David O. McKay
"Let husband and wife never speak to one another in loud tones,unless
the house is on fire." ~ David O. McKay
"The greatest work we will ever do will be within the walls of our
home." ~David O. McKay
"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love
their mother" ~David O. McKay
"Whate're Thou Art, Act Well Thy Part." ~David O. McKay
"Celestial marriage is a pivotal part of preparation for eternal
life. It requires one to be married to the right person, in
the right place, by the right authority, and to obey that sacred
covenant faithfully."
~ Bruce R. McConkie Not
having the blessing of an eternal marriage The
prophets of the Lord have repeatedly promised that no blessing will be
denied to the righteous single sisters of the Church if, through no
fault of their own, they have not been married in this life and sealed
to a worthy priesthood holder. They will be able to enjoy that blessing
forever in the next world. “On occasions when you ache for
that acceptance and affection which belong to family life on earth,
please know that our Father in Heaven is aware of your anguish, and
that one day he will bless you beyond your capacity to
express.”1 “Through
the merciful plan of our Father in Heaven, persons who desire to do
what is right but through no fault of their own are unable to have an
eternal marriage in mortal life will have an opportunity to qualify for
eternal life in a period following mortality, if they keep the
commandments of God and are true to their baptismal and other
covenants.”2
Not
having the blessing of Children “Let
me here say a word to console the feelings … of all who
belong to this Church. Many of the sisters grieve because they are not
blessed with offspring. You will see the time when you will have
millions of children around you. If you are faithful to your covenants,
you will be mothers of nations. … and when you have assisted
in peopling one earth, there are millions of earths still in the course
of creation. And when they have endured a thousand million times longer
than this earth, it is only as it were the beginning of your creations.
Be faithful, and if you are not blest with children in this time, you
will be hereafter.” 3 The
loss of a child “There
is no information given by revelation in regard to the status of
stillborn children. However, I will express my personal opinion that we
should have hope that these
little ones will
receive a resurrection and then belong to us.
I cannot help feeling that this will be the case” 4
"The
Prophet Joseph taught that many of these children were too pure and
lovely to live in the corruption on earth. Even as we mourn their
present loss to us, we have reason to rejoice because they have been
delivered from evil. He also taught that those who die before the age
of eight are saved in the celestial kingdom (see D&C 137:10).
The mothers of these children, if they live faithfully, will raise them
to maturity during the Millennium."5 “Joseph
Smith taught the doctrine that the infant child that was laid away in
death would come up in the resurrection as a child; and, pointing to
the mother of a lifeless child, he said to her: ‘You will
have the joy, the pleasure, and satisfaction of nurturing this child,
after its resurrection, until it reaches the full stature of its
spirit.’ There is restitution, there is growth, there is
development, after the resurrection from death. I love this truth. It
speaks volumes of happiness, of joy and gratitude to my soul. Thank the
Lord he has revealed these principles to us.” 6 “The
only difference between the old and young dying is, one lives longer in
heaven [the spirit world] and eternal light and glory than the other,
and is freed a little sooner from this miserable wicked world.
Notwithstanding all this glory, we for a moment lose sight of it, and
mourn the loss, but we do not mourn as those without hope.” 7
“It
matters not whether these tabernacles mature in this world, or have to
wait and mature in the world to come, according to the word of the
Prophet Joseph Smith, the body will develop, either in time or in
eternity, to the full stature of the spirit, and when the mother is
deprived of the pleasure and joy of rearing her babe to manhood or to
womanhood in this life, through the hand of death, that privilege will
be renewed to her hereafter, and she will enjoy it to a fuller fruition
than it would be possible for her to do here.”8 Children
who have gone astray “The
Prophet Joseph Smith declared—and he never taught more
comforting doctrine—that the eternal sealings of faithful
parents and the divine promises made to them for valiant service in the
Cause of Truth, would save not only themselves, but likewise their
posterity. Though some of the sheep may wander, the eye of the Shepherd
is upon them, and sooner or later they will feel the tentacles of
Divine Providence reaching out after them and drawing them back to the
fold. Either in this life or the life to come, they will return. They
will have to pay their debt to justice; they will suffer for their
sins; and may tread a thorny path; but if it leads them at last, like
the penitent Prodigal, to a loving and forgiving father’s
heart and home, the painful experience will not have been in
vain.” 9
1.
James E. Faust, “You Are All Heaven Sent,” Ensign,
Nov 2002, 110
2. See Lorenzo Snow, Millennial
Star,
31 August 1899, page 547; discussed in Dallin H. Oaks, Pure in Heart
(Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1988),
pages 61–62.
3. Brigham Young (In Journal of
Discourses,
8:208.)
4. Doctrines of Salvation,
comp. Bruce R. McConkie, 3 vols., [1954–56], 2:280.
5. “Lesson 14: The Latter-day Saint Woman,” The
Latter-day Saint Woman: Basic Manual for Women, Part A, 97
6. Gospel Doctrine,
pp. 455–56. See also Teachingsof the Prophet Joseph
Smith, Jr., pp. 196–97,
200, 368. 7.
Teachings
of the Prophet
Joseph Smith, Jr., p. 197. 8.
Gospel Doctrine, pp 453–54. 9.
Orson F. Whitney, in Conference Report, Apr. 1929, 110