You cannot lift others to virtue on the one hand if you are entertaining vice on the other.

Of all your associations, it is your relationship with God, your Heavenly Father, who is the source of your moral power.

Quorum and group leaders should provide the leading voice and laboring oar in every ward and branch council regarding retention of converts.

A woman’s moral influence is nowhere more powerfully felt or more beneficially employed than in the home. There is no better setting for rearing the rising generation than the traditional family, where a father and a mother work in harmony to provide for, teach, and nurture their children. Where this ideal does not exist, people strive to duplicate its benefits as best they can in their particular circumstances.

Moral discipline is the consistent exercise of agency to choose the right because it is right, even when it is hard.

In creating a family, we fulfill our greatest purpose on earth.

We need strong Christians who can persevere against hardship, who can sustain hope through tragedy, who can lift others by their example and their compassion, and who can consistently overcome temptations. We need strong Christians who can make important things happen by their faith and who can defend the truth of Jesus Christ against moral relativism and militant atheism. What is the source of such moral and spiritual power, and how do we obtain it? The source is God. Our access to that power is through our covenants with Him.