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(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
(7/1/05)
"As we learn to be loving, caring
families in mortality, our hearts will naturally turn to members of
our kindred family in the spirit world. As they continue to live
beyond the veil, they wait—they wait for us, their family, to share
the blessings of the ordinances of the priesthood. They yearn to
belong to the eternal family circle. They are anxious for us to make
this possible. Are we not compelled to do so?" - J. Richard Clarke,
"Our
Kindred Family—Expression of Eternal Love," Ensign, May 1989,
61
8/1/08
"Truly the Lord has
turned the hearts of the children to their parents, and the hearts of
our forefathers who are dead have been turned to us. I believe that
they are near us, and that they are trying their best to influence us
to do that which will open the prison doors, and give them a chance to
enter into a broader life and grander work which will prepare us and
them for greater happiness in the life to come; this is the greater
love that is moving the living and the dead."
- German E. Ellsworth, "Conference Report," April 1914, Outdoor
Meeting, p.83
1/11/10
“In
today’s world, where Satan’s aggression against the family is so
prevalent, parents must do all they can to fortify and defend their
families. But their efforts may not be enough. Our most basic
institution of family desperately needs help and support from the
extended family and the public institutions that surround us. Brothers
and sisters, aunts and uncles, grandparents and cousins can make a
powerful difference in the lives of children. Remember that the
expression of love and encouragement from an extended family member
will often provide the right influence and help a child at a critical
time.” –
M. Russell Ballard, “What Matters Most Is What Lasts
Longest,” CR October 2005
7/18/12
So I would say to all of you here this morning, I hope you could
develop a strong feeling in your own families—and with you
personally—about not wanting to become a weak link in the chain of
your family and of your ancestors. I encourage you also to be a strong
link for your posterity. Do not be the weak link. Wouldn’t that be a
terrible thing to do? To think of that long chain and of all that work
that needs to be done in the saving of souls and of the precious work
that needs to be done, wouldn’t it be sad if you were the one who was
the weak link that caused your descendants not to be able to be part
of that strong linkage. - David B. Haight, "Be
a Strong Link," Ensign (CR) November 2000