Tag Archives: Marriage

Virtues Over Vices

President Hinckley counseled us to focus on virtues over vice,

I am satisfied that if we would look for the virtues in one another and not the vices, there would be much more of happiness in the homes of our people. There would be far less of divorce, much less of infidelity, much less of anger and rancor and quarreling. There would be more of forgiveness, more of love, more of peace, more of happiness. This is as the Lord would have it.

Gordon B. Hinckley,
“Living Worthy of the Girl You Will Someday Marry”
April 1998 General Conference

The Sanctity of Marriage

Quoting President David O. McKay, Elder Oaks reminded us of the sanctity of marriage and how it should not be misused,

‘Our Church leaders have taught that looking “upon marriage as a mere contract that may be entered into at pleasure … and severed at the first difficulty … is an evil meriting severe condemnation,’ especially where ‘children are made to suffer.'”

2012 October General Conference, Protect the Children, Sat. Afternoon Session – By Dallin H. Oaks

Eternal Marriage and Our Calling and Election Made Sure

On the subject of eternal marriage and our calling and election made sure, Bruce R. McConkie wrote,

“Making one’s calling and election sure comes after and grows out of celestial marriage. Eternal life does not and cannot exist for a man or a woman alone, because in its very nature it consists of the continuation of the family unit in eternity. Thus the revelation on marriage speaks both of celestial marriage (in which the conditional promises of eternal life are given) and of making one’s calling and election sure (in which the unconditional promise of eternal life are given) in one and the same sentence.”

 Doctrinal New Testament Commentary 3:343

Whatever Jesus Lays His Hands Upon Lives

Speaking on the Raising of Jarius’ daughter from the dead, President Howard W. Hunter said,

These are not only the words of faith of a father torn with grief but are also a reminder to us that whatever Jesus lays his hands upon lives. If Jesus lays his hands upon a marriage, it lives. If he is allowed to lay his hands on a family, it lives.

Conference Report, Oct. 1979, p. 93