Russell M. Nelson -Our Sacred Duty to Honor Women
- If one dishonors the commandments of God, one dishonors mother, and if one dishonors mother, one dishonors the commandments of God.
- During my professional career as a doctor of medicine, I was occasionally asked why I chose to do that difficult work. I responded with my opinion that the highest and noblest work in this life is that of a mother. Since that option was not available to me, I thought that caring for the sick might come close. I tried to care for my patients as compassionately and completely as Mother cared for me.
- Remember that your mother is your mother. She should not need to issue orders. Her wish, her hope, her hint should provide direction that you would honor. Thank her and express your love for her. And if she is struggling to rear you without your father, you have a double duty to honor her.
- An ideal marriage is a true partnership between two imperfect people, each striving to compliment the other, to keep the commandments, and to do the will of the Lord.
- The Church does not replace that parental responsibility. Ideally, the Latter-day Saint family is presided over by a worthy man who holds the priesthood.
- You fathers can help with the dishes, care for a crying baby, and change a diaper. And perhaps some Sunday you could get the children ready for Church, and your wife could sit in the car and honk.
- When a person violates any of God's commandments, if there is no repentance the Lord withdraws His protective and sustaining influence. When we lose power with God, we know of a certainty that the problem lies within us and not within God.
- "There is no limit to the power of the priesthood ... you hold. The limit comes in you if you do not live in harmony with the Spirit of the Lord and you limit yourselves in the power you exert."
- We cannot live only unto ourselves, but we are also responsible for the growth, development, and welfare of others.
- There should be nothing casual, nonchalant, or indifferent about holding priesthood. Once accepted, it should not be ignored, neglected, or cast aside. It is a mantle of honor and power that may be ours forever.
- By accepting a call to priesthood, each man binds himself by his own integrity to act in a certain way. This brings a sense of responsibility, generating in each of us a power of reinforcement for positive action and a deterrent to slothfulness.
- There are many that do not understand what is missing in their lives and hunger for those tender feelings that come from knowing the love of our Savior. They are good people who lie dormant, as it were, awaiting the awakening of their soul by those who bring the "good news." There are others who watch us, observe our examples, and say, "I like what I see; how can I become a part of it?"
- We all have become very aware that employment is no longer as secure as in former years as businesses and nonbusiness institutions all around the world merge and consolidate in order to be more competitive. The family farm is increasingly exposed to worldwide markets and general economic conditions rather than just local or national conditions of earlier years.
- In virtually all pursuits, the rapidly changing conditions in the world are bearing down on families.
- Christ's Church will rise to its full stature when these families are brought safely under the mantle of the priesthood.
- The more we obey revealed truth, the more we become liberated.
- Many of our Youth! ... They are impulsive, full of life, full of curiosity, ... They, too, are restive under restraint, but if they are kept busy, guided carefully and rightly, they prove to be responsive and capable; but if left to wander unguided, they all too frequently violate principles of right which often lead to snares of evil, disaster, and even death.
- Being bridled, or yielding obediently to restraint, is necessary for our personal growth and progression.
- "It is better to be trusted than to be loved."
- Trust must be earned.
- Obedience we also gain knowledge.
- Obedience brings peace in decision making. If we have firmly made up our minds to follow the commandments, we will not have to redecide which path to take when temptation comes our way. That is how obedience brings spiritual safety.
- In this day in which we live, the floodwaters of immorality, irresponsibility, and dishonesty lap at the very moorings of our individual lives. If we do not safeguard those moorings, if we do not have deeply entrenched foundations to withstand such eroding influences, we are going to experience difficulty.
- One of the greatest safeguards we have in the Church is a strong, firm, committed, dedicated, and testifying Melchizedek Priesthood base.
- There is an ancient proverb which purports to correctly determine the sanity of an individual. A person is shown a stream of water flowing into a stagnant pond. He is given a bucket and asked to commence to drain the pond. If he first takes steps to effectively dam the inflow to the pond, he is adjudged as sane. If, on the other hand, he ignores the inflow and tries to empty the pond bucket by bucket, he is designated as insane.
- Our goal: to save every young man, thereby assuring a worthy husband for each of our young women.
- A boy will automatically turn from concern for self when he is assigned to "watch over" others.
- There is no need for us to walk alone. We can look up and reach out for divine help.
- We have become a great body of men, young and old. There is scarcely anything we cannot accomplish if we work unitedly together with one mind and one purpose and one heart.
- It is a challenge to work in the world and live above its filth.
- Temptations are everywhere about us; unfortunately, some succumb to these.
- Be strong. Rise above the evils of the world. We need not be prudish. We need not adopt a holier-than-thou attitude. We need only let our personal integrity, our sense of right and wrong, and simple honesty govern our actions.
- You of all men, must exercise self-discipline, standing far apart from sin and evil of any kind in your own life.
- I plead with you to shield yourselves from the darts of the adversary.
I'll be watching the leaves.
Enjoy the day!
-Sarnic Dirchi
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