(10/11/01)
"Do you spend as much time making your family and home successful as you do in pursuing social and professional success? Are you devoting your best creative energy to the most important unit in society—the family? Or is your relationship with your family merely a routine, unrewarding part of life? Parent and child must be willing to put family responsibilities first in order to achieve family exaltation."

Joseph Fielding Smith 
"Message from the First Presidency," 
"Ensign," Jan. 1971

(10/12/01)
"As people become adults, leave childhood homes, and become involved in immediate families, it is sometimes difficult to keep a close association with brothers and sisters, aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents, and other relatives. Yet these are among the very people with whom we hope to be worthy to inherit celestial exaltation. It is important to maintain family ties and associations."

Theodore M. Burton 
"With Whom Will We Share Exaltation?" 
"Ensign," Aug. 1971, 33

(10/13/01)
"In the Church we have a deep and abiding faith in the sacred nature of family ties and the sanctity of marriage, in the exalted station of women."

Boyd K. Packer 
"The Equal Rights Amendment," 
"Ensign," Mar. 1977, 9

(10/14/01)
"This great vision [Doctrine & Covenants Section 2] to the Prophet Joseph Smith reestablished the doctrine of eternal family units. The eternal family is central to the gospel of our Savior. There would be no reason for Him to return to earth to rule and reign over His kingdom unless the eternal family unit has been established for our Father in Heaven’s children. When we understand the eternal role of the family, the nourishing and developing of strong family ties take on even greater significance."

L. Tom Perry 
"Youth of the Noble Birthright" 
"Ensign," Nov. 1998, 74

(10/15/01)
"Marriage—especially temple marriage—and family ties involve covenant relationships. They cannot be regarded casually. With divorce rates escalating throughout the world today, it is apparent that many spouses are failing to endure to the end of their commitments to each other. And some temple marriages fail because a husband forgets that his highest and most important priesthood duty is to honor and sustain his wife. The best thing that a father can do for his children is to 'love their mother.'"

Russell M. Nelson 
"Endure and Be Lifted Up," 
"Ensign," May 1997, 71