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Quotes from Church Leaders

"We have  made covenants.  We made them before we accepted our position here on earth.  We committed ourselves to our Heavenly Father, that if he would send us to the earth and give us bodies and give to us the priceless opportunities that earth life afforded, we would keep our lives clean and would marry in the holy temple and would rear a family and teach them righteousness.  This was a solemn oath, a solemn promise."

"Do not make the mistake of being drawn off into secondary tasks which will cause the neglect of your eternal assignments such as giving birth to and rearing the spirit children of our Father in Heaven."                        President Spencer W. Kimbal
"I wonder if you sisters fully understand the greatness of your gifts and talents and how all of you can achieve the “highest place of honor” in the Church and in the world. One of your unique, precious, and sublime gifts is your femininity, with its natural grace, goodness, and divinity. Femininity is not just lipstick, stylish hairdos, and trendy clothes. It is the divine adornment of humanity. It finds expression in your qualities of your capacity to love, your spirituality, delicacy, radiance, sensitivity, creativity, charm, graciousness, gentleness, dignity, and quiet strength. It is manifest differently in each girl or woman, but each of you possesses it."

-James E. Faust, "Womanhood: The Highest Place of Honor", Ensign, May 2000, 95
"My young sisters, we have such hope for you. We have such great expectations for you. Don't settle for less than what the Lord wants you to be.... 

"Give me a young woman who loves home and family, who reads and ponders the scriptures daily, who has a burning testimony of the Book of Mormon.... Give me a young woman who is virtuous and who has maintained her personal purity, who will not settle for less than a temple marriage, and I will give you a young woman who will perform miracles for the Lord now and throughout eternity." 
-President Ezra Taft Benson 
"Anyone who would say apologetically, 'I am only a homemaker,' has not fully appreciated the importance and intricacy of her profession. Some of the attributes required to be successful are an unlimited amount of love and patience, unselfishness, and endurance. 

"A woman should be skilled in child training, in psychology and sociology, in economics and management, in nutrition and nursing." 
-Camilla Kimball 
"I tell young women... that they should do all in their power to make themselves attractive physically in dress and grooming, mentally in being knowledgeable on many subjects, spiritually in being responsive, emotionally in being genuine and worthy." 
-Spencer W. Kimball 
"No matter what you read or hear, no matter what the differences of circumstances you observe in the lives of women about you, it is important for you Latter-day Saint women to understand that the Lord holds motherhood and mothers sacred and in the highest esteem. He has entrusted to his daughters the great responsibility of bearing and nurturing children. 

"This is the great, irreplaceable work of women. Life cannot go on if women cease to bear children. Mortal life is a privilege and a necessary step in eternal progression. Mother Eve understood that. You must also understand it.... 

"Much is said about the drudgery and the confinement of the woman's role in the home. In the perspective of the gospel it is not so. There is divinity in each new life. There is challenge in creating the environment in which a child can grow and develop. There is partnership between the man and woman in building a family which can last throughout the eternities" 

Spencer W. Kimball 
"It is time to give ourselves to the Master and allow him to lead us into fruitful fields where we can enrich a world filled with darkness and misery." 

Mary Ellen Smoot 
"To mothers, daughters, and women everywhere, let me stress the fact that because of your great potential and influence for good in the lives of all of us, Satan is determined to destroy you. You cannot compromise with him. You must have the courage, the strength, the desire, and the determination to live as the Lord would have you live good clean lives. Girls, keep yourselves virtuous and worthy of a fine young man who has likewise kept himself clean, so that together you can go to the House of the Lord to be sealed in the holy bonds of matrimony for time and all eternity, and prepare a home where God will be pleased to send his spirit children." 

N. Eldon Tanner 


A woman led by the Lord knows where to turn for answers and for peace. She can make difficult decisions and face problems with confidence because she takes her counsel from the Spirit. 
Sheri L. Dew
"Sisters, you were not born at this time and place by chance. You are here because this is where the Lord wants you to be.... 

"... Strong women are needed, women who will stay morally clean when all about them do not, women who will establish homes that are a little bit of heaven and where the family is upheld and little children are cared for and given love and attention by their own mothers, women who will shun pornography not just older women, but young women too, who will seek personal and social refinement, who will strive to become more cultured, who will respect the authority of the home and the priesthood. As the Church grows, there will be a need for more women who are leaders, for more women everywhere who have the courage to proclaim their testimony of Jesus Christ, women who will pray and study to find out what the Lord requires of them and who will then make right choices and put themselves in the hands of the Lord." 
Betty E. Brown 
My dear sisters, I wish to tell you at the outset how much we appreciate the women of this church. You are an essential part of it, a most important part of it. It could not function properly without you. 

You provide inspiration. You provide balance. You constitute a vast reservoir of faith and good works. You are an anchor of devotion and loyalty and accomplishment. No one can gainsay the great part you play in the onward rolling of this work across the earth. You teach in the organizations and do it so very well. Your preparation is an example to all of us. Each of you is a part of this vast enterprise, the Relief Society, a great family of sisters, more than four million strong. In your worldwide membership lies the power to accomplish incalculable good. 

You are the keeper of the homes. You give encouragement to your husbands. You teach and nurture your children in Faith. For some of you life is difficult and even bitter. But you complain so very little and do so very much. How deeply indebted we are to you! 

Speaking of the Relief Society, President Joseph F. Smith said on one occasion: "This Organization is divinely made, divinely ordained of God to minister for the salvation of the souls of women and of men. Therefore there is not any organization that can compare with it... that can ever occupy the same stand and platform that this can... "Make Relief Society first, make it foremost, make it the highest, the best and the deepest of any organization in existence in the world. You are called by the voice of the Prophet of God to do it, to be uppermost, to be the greatest and the best, the purest and the most devoted to the right." 

Gordon B. Hinckley 
There is indeed no privileged class or sex within the true Church of Christ; and in reality there can be no discrimination between the sexes only as human beings make it or permit it. Men have their work to do and their powers to exercise for the benefit of all the members of the Church regardless of sex or age. "So with woman: Her special gifts are to be exercised for the benefit and uplift of the race. This equally shared responsibility makes men and women real 'team-mates' in that which makes for human progress. Each one is a complement to the other and neither sex alone may function completely in the world's work. 

John A. Widtsoe 
Never in history have women enjoyed the freedom of thought and action accorded the women of this Church. From the day of its restoration women have been accorded their full religious franchise, and in the temples of the restored Gospel a man may not partake of the highest ordinances without his wife by his side. In all life pursuits she is given her entire independence. 

This gives to woman a mighty responsibility which, if she honors and uses, will be increased in power upon her; but if she ignores it or treats it lightly or fails to magnify it, she may lose that which she now possesses and thereby forfeit her birthright. For this great privilege women of this Church should be eternally grateful and willing to use and cherish this precious and priceless relationship. Where much is given, much is expected. 

Leah D. Widtsoe 
 It is according to our natures, Sisters, to have feelings of charity and benevolence. It isn't always easy to put these feelings into action. But as women, we should pray for charitable desires and opportunities and then work to foster these godlike attributes. 

Barbara W. Winder 
To help another human being reach one's celestial potential is part of the divine mission of woman. As mother, teacher, or nurturing Saint, she molds living clay to the shape of her hopes. In partnership with God, her divine mission is to help spirits live and souls be lifted. This is the measure of her creation. It is ennobling, edifying, and exalting. 

Russell M. Nelson
Selflessness is a key to happiness and effectiveness; it is precious and must be preserved as a virtue which guarantees so many other virtues. There are so many things in the world which reinforce our natural selfishness, and neither our men nor women should be partakers thereof. We have grown strong as a people because our women have been so selfless. That ennobling quality must not be lost, even though some of the people of the world may try to persuade otherwise. 

Spencer W. Kimball 
"Like the woman who anonymously, meekly, perhaps even with hesitation and

some embarrassment, fought her way through the crowd just to touch the
hem of 
the Master's garment, so Christ will say to the women who worry and
wonder 
and sometimes weep over their responsibility as mothers, "Daughter, be of

good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole." And it will make your 
children whole as well." ~Jeffrey R. Holland
The responsibilities of motherhood can seem 
overwhelming. It is important to remember that the 
Lord does not expect mothers to be perfect or to
achieve an unrealistic ideal standard of homemaking. 
Yet He does expect them to recognize and honor their 
divine role and to humbly do their best.
Gordon B. Hinckley
"Mothers, yours is the work of salvation and therefore you will be
magnified, compensated, made more than you are and better than you have
ever been, as you try to make an honest effort, however feeble you may
sometimes feel that be." ~Jeffrey R. Holland
No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It
ministers to the development of such qualities as patience, faith,
fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure,
especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters,
purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and
charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God... and it is
through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the
education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like
our Father and Mother in heaven.
~Orson F. Whitney
The responsibilities of motherhood can seem 
overwhelming. It is important to remember that the 
Lord does not expect mothers to be perfect or to
achieve an unrealistic ideal standard of homemaking. 
Yet He does expect them to recognize and honor their 
divine role and to humbly do their best.
Gordon B. Hinckley
"Mothers, yours is the work of salvation and therefore you will be
magnified, compensated, made more than you are and better than you have
ever been, as you try to make an honest effort, however feeble you may
sometimes feel that be." ~Jeffrey R. Holland