When a Father takes the child by the hand, he takes the Mother by the Heart.... The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

Pleasure is not the purpose of man's existence. Joy is.

The home is the basis of a righteous life and no other instrumentality can take its place nor fulfill its essential functions.

Every member ... a missionary!

To be carnally minded is to be spiritually dead

President David O. McKay (1873-1970) observed that too many couples come to "marriage looking upon the marriage ceremony as the end of courtship instead of the beginning of an eternal courtship. ... Love can be starved to death as literally as the body that receives no sustenance. Love feeds upon kindness and courtesy"

If our young people could but glimpse it, it would be the most powerful spiritual motivation of their lives!