#1 Elder F. Burton Howard April 2005 General Conference
“If you want something to last forever, you treat it differently…. It becomes special because you have made it so.
#2 W.Douglas Shumway Daily Gems 25 March 2008
“Marriage is meant to be and must be a loving, binding, harmonious relationship between a man and a woman. When a husband and a wife understand that the family is ordained of God and that marriage can be filled with promises and blessings extending into the eternities, separation and divorce would seldom be a consideration in the Latter-day Saint home. Couples would realize that the sacred ordinances and covenants made in the house of the Lord provide that means whereby they can return to the presence of God.”
#3 Ezra Taft Benson, Ensign July 1992
“Marriage itself must be regarded as a sacred covenant before God. A married couple have an obligation not only to each other, but to God. He has promised blessings to those who honor that covenant… “Husbands and wives who love each other will find that love and loyalty are reciprocated. This love will provide a nurturing atmosphere for the emotional growth of children. “Restraint and self-control must be ruling principles in the marriage relationship.”
#4 Russell M. Nelson Ensign Nov 2011
“Brethren and sisters, material possessions and honors of the world do not endure. But your union as wife, husband, and family can. The only duration of family life that satisfies the loftiest longings of the human soul is forever. No sacrifice is too great to have the blessings of an eternal marriage. To qualify, one needs only to deny oneself of ungodliness and honor the ordinances of the temple. By making and keeping sacred temple covenants, we evidence our love for God, for our companion, and our real regard for our posterity-even those yet unborn. Our family is the focus of our greatest work and joy in this life.”
#5 Bruce Hafen, Ensign August 2007
“Temple marriage covenants do not magically bring equality to a partnership. Those covenants commit us to a developmental process of learning a growing together-by practice. “Equal partnerships are not made in heaven-they are made on earth, one choice at a time, on conversation at a time, one threshold crossing at a time. And getting there is hard work.”
# 6 Dallin H. Oaks April 2007 General Conference
“A good marriage does not require a perfect man or perfect woman. It only requires a man and woman committed to strive together toward perfection.”
#7 Dallin H. Oaks Ensign May 2007
“Don’t treasure up past wrongs, reprocessing them again and again. In a marriage relationship, festering is destructive; forgiving is divine. Plead for the guidance of the Spirit of the Lord to forgive wrongs… to overcome faults, and to strengthen relationships.
#8 Henry B. Eyring Ensign 2009
“I give counsel to husbands and wives. Pray for the love, which allows you to see the good in your companion. Pray for the love that makes weaknesses and mistakes seem small. Pray for the love to make your companion’s joy your own. Pray for the love to want to lessen the load and soften the sorrows of your companion.”
#9 Spencer W. Kimball, Teachings of Presidents of the Church 2006.
“Marriage is perhaps the most vital of all the decisions and has the most far-reaching effects, for it has to do not only with immediate happiness, but also their families and particularly their children and their children’s children down through the many generations. In selecting a companion for life and for eternity, certainly the most careful planning and thinking and praying and fasting should be done to be sure that of all the decisions, this one must not be wrong”
#10 Elder Bednar Ensign June 2006
“As a husband and wife are each drawn to the Lord, as they learn to serve and cherish one another, as they share life experiences and grow together and become one, and as they are blessed through the uniting of their distinctive natures, they begin to realize the fulfillment that our Heavenly Father desires for His children. Ultimate happiness, which is the very object of the Father’s plan, is received through the making and honoring of eternal marriage covenants.”
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