~Elder David A. Bednar, Marriage is Essential to His Eternal Plan, June 2006 Ensign
"Remember, brethren, that in your role as leader in the family, your wife is your companion. As President Gordon B. Hinckley has taught: “In this Church the man neither walks ahead of his wife nor behind his wife but at her side. They are coequals.” Since the beginning, God has instructed mankind that marriage should unite husband and wife together in unity. Therefore, there is not a president or a vice president in a family. The couple works together eternally for the good of the family. They are united together in word, in deed, and in action as they lead, guide, and direct their family unit. They are on equal footing. They plan and organize the affairs of the family jointly and unanimously as they move forward."
~Elder L. Tom Perry, Fatherhood, an Eternal Calling, April 2004 General Conference
"Teaching children the joy of honest labor is one of the greatest of all gifts you can bestow upon them. I am convinced that one of the reasons for the breakup of so many couples today is the failure of parents to teach and train sons in their responsibility to provide and care for their families and to enjoy the challenge this responsibility brings. Many of us also have fallen short in instilling within our daughters the desire of bringing beauty and order into their homes through homemaking."
~Elder L. Tom Perry, The Joy of Honest Labor, October 1986 General Conference
"Eternal love, eternal marriage, eternal increase! This ideal, which is new to many, when thoughtfully considered, can keep a marriage strong and safe. No relationship has more potential to exalt a man and a woman than the marriage covenant. No obligation in society or in the Church supersedes it in importance."
~Elder Boyd K. Packer, Marriage, April 1981 General Conference
"Pure
love is an incomparable, potent power for good. Righteous love is the
foundation of a successful marriage. It is the primary cause of
contented, well-developed children. Who can justly measure the righteous
influence of a mother’s love? What enduring fruits result from the
seeds of truth that a mother carefully plants and lovingly cultivates in
the fertile soil of a child’s trusting mind and heart? As a mother you
have been given divine instincts to help you sense your child’s special
talents and unique capacities. With your husband you can nurture,
strengthen, and cause those traits to flower.
It
is so rewarding to be married. Marriage is wonderful. In time you begin
to think alike and have the same ideas and impressions. You have times
when you are extremely happy, times of testing, and times of trial, but
the Lord guides you through all of those growth experiences together."
~Elder Richard G. Scott, The Eternal Blessings of Marriage, April 2011 General Conference
"Marriage brings greater possibilities for happiness than does any other human relationship. Yet some married couples fall short of their full potential. They let their romance become rusty, take each other for granted, allow other interests or clouds of neglect to obscure the vision of what their marriage really could be. Marriages would be happier if nurtured more carefully."
~Elder Russell M. Nelson, Nurturing Marriage, April 2006 General Conference
"This commandment has not been forgotten or set aside in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We express deep gratitude for the enormous faith shown by husbands and wives (especially our wives) in their willingness to have children. When to have a child and how many children to have are private decisions to be made between a husband and wife and the Lord. These are sacred decisions—decisions that should be made with sincere prayer and acted on with great faith."
~Elder Neil L. Andersen, Children, October 2011 General Conference
"Marriage brings greater possibilities for happiness than does any other human relationship. Yet some married couples fall short of their full potential. They let their romance become rusty, take each other for granted, allow other interests or clouds of neglect to obscure the vision of what their marriage really could be. Marriages would be happier if nurtured more carefully."
~Elder Russell M. Nelson, Nurturing Marriage, April 2006 General Conference
"This commandment has not been forgotten or set aside in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We express deep gratitude for the enormous faith shown by husbands and wives (especially our wives) in their willingness to have children. When to have a child and how many children to have are private decisions to be made between a husband and wife and the Lord. These are sacred decisions—decisions that should be made with sincere prayer and acted on with great faith."
~Elder Neil L. Andersen, Children, October 2011 General Conference
"Latter-day Saint spouses should do all within their power to preserve their marriages. They should follow the marriage enrichment counsel in the First Presidency’s message in the April 2007 Ensign and Liahona. To avoid so-called “incompatibility,” they should be best friends, kind and considerate, sensitive to each other’s needs, always seeking to make each other happy. They should be partners in family finances, working together to regulate their desires for temporal things."
~Elder Dallin H. Oaks, Divorce, April 2007 General Conference
"While salvation is an individual matter, exaltation is a family matter. Only those who are married in the temple and whose marriage is sealed by the Holy Spirit of Promise will continue as spouses after death and receive the highest degree of celestial glory, or exaltation. A temple marriage is also called a celestial marriage. Within the celestial glory are three levels. To obtain the highest, a husband and wife must be sealed for time and all eternity and keep their covenants made in a holy temple.
The noblest yearning of the human heart is for a marriage that can endure beyond death. Fidelity to a temple marriage does that. It allows families to be together forever."~Elder Russell M. Nelson, Celestial Marriage, October 2008 General Conference
"Marriage is a divine institution, ordained of God. Achieving success in the home is a supernal challenge—no other success can compensate for it. Unless, however, a husband and wife learn to work together as one, marriage can also be an infernal ordeal. There are too many unhappy marriages in the world today. There are too many marriages that do not stay the course, ending prematurely in divorce. There are too many children who are silently suffering from a lack of nurturing and care because their parents’ union is unhappy or dissolved.
The union between husband and wife is not something to be trifled with. The marriage covenant is essential for the Lord to accomplish His divine purposes. Consistently the Lord has declared that His divine laws were instituted to safeguard and protect the holy union between husband and wife."
~Elder L. Tom Perry, An Elect Lady, April 1995 General Conference
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