Husbands and wives should understand that their first calling-from which they will never be released-is to one another and THEN to their children.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of prioritizing the marital relationship over parental responsibilities.
Boyd K. Packer stresses that the bond between husbands and wives forms the foundation of a family, asserting that the relationship between spouses should take precedence over their roles as parents. By highlighting this order of commitment, he suggests that a strong partnership is essential for effectively raising children and maintaining a healthy family dynamic.
In practice
This quote can be used in a wedding speech to emphasize the importance of the couple's relationship.
Faith, to be faith, must center around something that is not known. Faith, to be faith, must go beyond that for which there is confirming evidence. Faith, to be faith, must go into the unknown. Faith, to be faith, must walk to the edge of the light, and then a few steps into the darkness. If everything has to be known, if everything has to be explained, if everything has to be certified, then there is no need for faith. Indeed, there is no room for it.
Every soul confined in a prison of sin, guilt, or perversion has a key to the gate. The key is labeled “repentance.” If you know how to use this key, the adversary cannot hold you.
Learn to pray. Pray often. Pray in your mind, in your heart. Pray on your knees. Prayer is your personal key to heaven. The lock is on your side of the veil. And I have learned to conclude all my prayers with ‘Thy will be done’ (Matthew 6:10; see also Luke 11:2; 3 Nephi 13:10).
Latter-day Saints are not obedient because they are compelled to be obedient. They are obedient because they know certain spiritual truths and have decided, as an expression of their own individual agency, to obey the commandments of God. . . . We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see
Thoughts, like water, will stay on course if we make a place for them to go. As you learn to control your thoughts, you can gain courage, conquer fear and have a happy life.
Addiction has the capacity to disconnect the human will and nullify moral agency. It can rob one of the power to decide.
After divorce of Pompeia in 62 BC I feel that members of my family should never be suspected of breaking the law. -Meos tam suspicione quam crimine iudico carere oportere
An unconscious, gentle process whereby people who want to be loving attempt to be so by telling little white lies, by withholding some of the truth about themselves and their feelings in order to avoid conflict. Pseudocommunity is conflict-avoiding; true community is conflict-resolving.
He couldn't even tell whether he was angry or contrite, whether it was forgiveness he wanted or the power to forgive.
I don't even know how to speak up for myself, because I don't really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice.
Sir,"she said,"you are no gentleman!" An apt observation,"he answered airily."And, you, Miss, are no lady.
Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.
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