The LDS Daily WOOL Home Page
(6/6/98)
"Here are the promised blessings
for those who will hold a weekly home evening: 'If the
Saints obey this counsel, we promise that great blessings
will result. Love at home and obedience to parents will
increase. Faith will be developed in the hearts of the
youth of Israel, and they will gain power to combat the
evil influences and temptations which beset them.' (First
Presidency, April 27, 1915, in Improvement Era
18:733-34.)"—Ezra Taft Benson, God,
Family, Country, p. 228
(6/7/98)
"I like to compare the home
evening, family prayer, and other associated activities
of the Church for the saving of the family, when they are
conscientiously carried out, with an umbrella. If the
umbrella is not opened up, it is little more than a cane
and can give little protection from the storms of nature.
Likewise, God-given plans are of little value unless they
are used."—Spencer W. Kimball, General
Conference, October 1969
(6/8/98)
"I wonder if having casual and
infrequent family home evening will be enough in the
future to fortify our children with sufficient moral
strength. In the future, infrequent family scripture
study may be inadequate to arm our children with the
virtue necessary to withstand the moral decay of the
environment in which they will live. Where in the world
will the children learn chastity, integrity honesty, and
basic human decency if not at home. These values will, of
course, be reinforced at church, but parental teaching is
more constant."—Elder James E. Faust, The
Greatest Challenge In The World--Good Parenting,
General Conference, October 1990
(6/9/98)
"As we faithfully hold quality
family home evenings, we 'will gain strength to withstand
the temptations of the world and will receive many
blessings which will help qualify [us] to enjoy [our]
families through eternity in the Celestial Kingdom' (the
First Presidency, Family Home Evening, manual, 1978, p.
2). If the prophet bid us do some great thing for so
great a blessing, would we do it? Holding regular family
home evening is such a small thing we can do to obtain
these great blessings."—Elder Rex D. Pinegar, The
Simple Things, General Conference, October
1994
(6/10/98)
"Elder Harold B. Lee added a new dimension to our
understanding of Malachi's prophecy. He explained
that one objective of Church programs, such as family
home evening, is 'to turn here upon the earth, the hearts
of parents to children and the hearts of the children to
parents. Can you believe that when parents have
passed beyond the veil that then is the only time when
parents should have their hearts turned to their children
and children to their parents?... Maybe it is time for us
to think of turning the hearts of parents to children now
while living in order that, after they are gone to the
beyond, there might be that bond between parents and
children that might last beyond death.'"—Harold B. Lee, Preparing
to Meet the Lord, Oakland Temple Dedication,
November 1964,
as quoted by Richard O. Cowan in The
Doctrine and Covenants: Our Modern Scripture