Inspirational Quotes: The Family

"The key to strengthening our families is having the Spirit of the Lord come into our homes. The goal of our families is to be on the straight and narrow path." Robert D. Hales, Strengthening Families: Our Sacred Duty, April 1999 General Conference. 

"As we go through life, even through very rough waters, a father’s instinctive impulse to cling tightly to his wife or to his children may not be the best way to accomplish his objective. Instead, if he will lovingly cling to the Savior and the iron rod of the gospel, his family will want to cling to him and to the Savior." Russell M. Nelson, Set in Order Thy House, October 2001 General Conference.

"Our family is the focus of our greatest work and joy in this life; so will it be throughout all eternity." Russell M. Nelson, Set in Order Thy House, October 2001 General Conference.

"Fathers who listen more than they talk find that their sons share more about what is really going on in their lives. Dads, listen to your sons." M Russell Ballard, Fathers and Sons: A Remarkable Relationship, October 2009 General Conference. 

“In these last days it is essential—even critical—that parents and children listen to and learn from one another,” M Russell Ballard, Mothers and Daughter, April 2010 General Conference.

“A mother-daughter relationship is where a daughter learns how to nurture by being nurtured,” M Russell Ballard, Mothers and Daughter, April 2010 General Conference.

“But the home is the most important place to prepare the youth of today to lead the families and the Church of tomorrow,” M Russell Ballard, Mothers and Daughter, April 2010 General Conference.

“We can begin to become more diligent and concerned at home by telling the people we love that we love them. Such expressions do not need to be flowery or lengthy. We simply should sincerely and frequently express love.” David A Bednar, More Diligent and Concerned at Home, October 2009 General Conference.

“There is nothing in the scriptures, there is nothing in what we publish, there is nothing in what we believe or teach that gives license to parents or anyone else to neglect or abuse or molest our own or anyone else’s children.

There is in the scriptures, there is in what we publish, there is in what we believe, there is in what we teach, counsel, commandments, even warnings that we are to protect, to love, to care for, and to “teach [children] to walk in the ways of truth” (Mosiah 4:15). To betray them is utterly unthinkable.” Boyd K. Packer, Children,  April 2002 General Conference

“Nothing compares with a father who is responsible and in turn teaches his children responsibility. Nothing compares with a mother who is present with them to comfort them and give them assurance. Love, protection, and tenderness are all of consummate worth.

The Lord said, “I have commanded you to bring up your children in light and truth” (D&C 93:40).” Boyd K. Packer, Children,  April 2002 General Conference

“As the world grows ever more threatening, the powers of heaven draw ever closer to families and parents.” Boyd K Packer, Parents in Zion, October 1998 General Conference

"Probably only a parent who has held that newborn infant in his or her arms understands the wonder of which I speak. Suffice it to say that of all the titles God has chosen for Himself, Father is the one He favors most, and creation is His watchword—especially human creation, creation in His image. You and I have been given something of that godliness, but under the most serious and sacred of restrictions. The only control placed on us is self-control—self-control born of respect for the divine sacramental power this gift represents." Jeffery R. Holland, Personal Purity, October 1998 General Conference.