Aristotle

The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness.

As quoted in The Little Book of Snowflakes, by Kenneth Libbrecht 2004 Voyageur Press

Ezra Taft Benson

I say to all of you the Lord has charged men with the responsibility to provide for their families in such a way that the wife is allowed to fulfill her role as mother in the home.

Second, you have a sacred responsibility to provide spiritual leadership in your family.

Mothers play an important role as the heart of the home, but this in no way lessons the equally important role fathers should play, as head of the home, in nurturing, training and loving their children.

As the patriarch in your home, you have a serious responsibility to assume leadership in working with your children.  You must help create a home where the Spirit of the Lord can abide.  Your place is to give direction to all family life.  You should take an active part in establishing family rules and discipline.

Ezra Taft Benson, General Conference, October 1987

Spencer W. Kimball

To be a righteous woman is a glorious thing in any age.  To be a righteous woman during the winding-up scenes on this earth, before the second coming of our Savior, is an especially noble calling.  The righteous woman's strength and influence today can be tenfold what it might be in more tranquil times.  She has been placed here to help, to enrich, to protect and to guard the home - which is society's basic and most noble institution.  Other institutions in society may falter and even fail, but the righteous woman can help to save the home, which may be the last and only sanctuary some mortals know in the midst of storm and strife.

Spencer W. Kimball, as quoted in Daughters in my Kingdom, ch.9

Jeffrey R. Holland

Whoever you are and whatever you have done, you can be forgiven. Every one of you young men can leave behind any transgression with which you may struggle. It is the miracle of forgiveness; it is the miracle of the Atonement of the Lord Jesus Christ. But you cannot do it without an active commitment to the gospel, and you cannot do it without repentance where it is needed.

Jeffrey R. Holland, General Conference, October 2011, Priesthood Session

Jeffrey R. Holland

Number one, Satan, or Lucifer, or the father of lies—call him what you will—is real, the very personification of evil. His motives are in every case malicious, and he convulses at the appearance of redeeming light, at the very thought of truth. Number two, he is eternally opposed to the love of God, the Atonement of Jesus Christ, and the work of peace and salvation. He will fight against these whenever and wherever he can. He knows he will be defeated and cast out in the end, but he is determined to take down with him as many others as he possibly can.

Jeffrey R. Holland, We Are All Enlisted, Ensign Oct. 2011

Sterling W. Sill

“God’s forgiveness is often nullified because the sinner does not forgive himself. What good does it do for God to blot our evil from his mind, if we continue to let it dominate our thinking by rerunning it in our own?”

Sterling W. Sill, What Doth It Profit, p. 179

Spencer W. Kimball

Sometimes a guilt consciousness overpowers a person with such a heaviness that when a repentant one looks back and sees the ugliness, the loathsomeness of the transgression, he is almost overwhelmed and wonders, ‘Can the Lord ever forgive me? Can I ever forgive myself?’ But when one reaches the depths of despondency and feels the hopelessness of his position, and when he cries out to God for mercy not in helplessness but in faith, there comes a still, small, but penetrating voice whispering to his soul, ‘Thy sins are forgiven thee’.

The Miracle of Forgiveness [Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1969], p. 344