Mothers have a sacred role. They are partners with God, as well as with their own husbands, first in giving birth to the Lord's spirit children and then rearing those children so they will serve the Lord and keep his commandments. ...Motherhood is a holy calling, a sacred dedication for carrying out the Lord's work, a consecration and devotion to the rearing and fostering, the nurturing of body, mind, and spirit of those who kept their first estate and who came to this earth for their second estate to learn and be tested.

O timid one, awaken, exert yourself, draw back the curtains your training and background have hung over the windows of your soul.

Man must live, not only exist; he must do, not merely be; he must grow, not just vegetate.

Humility is the beginning virtue of all exaltation.

Procrastination-thou wretched thief of time and opportunity!

I am not afraid of death. What I am afraid of is that I will meet the Saviour and He will say, 'You could have done better'

Mothers, are you so busy with social life, [with projects], with clubs, with working out of the home, or with housework, that you have not time to sit down and talk to your little girls and tell them the things they should know when they are nine, and ten, and eleven, and older? Can you be frank and loving to them so that they in turn can be frank in giving you their confidences?