Motherhood

josephfsmith“Motherhood lies at the foundation of happiness in the home, and of prosperity in the nation. God has laid upon men and women very sacred obligations with respect to motherhood, and they are obligations that cannot be disregarded and without invoking divine displeasure.”
– Joseph F. Smith

 

 

ArtBook__134_134__EzraTaftBenson____[1]“Above all else, children need to know and feel they are loved, wanted, and appreciated. They need to be assured of that often. Obviously, this is a role parents should fill, and most often the mother can do it best.”
– Ezra Taft Benson

 

 

josephfsmith“These things which we call extraordinary, remarkable, or unusual may make history, but they do not make real life. After all, to do well those things which God ordained to be the common lot of mankind, is the truest greatness. To be a successful father or a successful mother is greater than to be a successful general or a successful statesmen.”
– Joseph F. Smith

 

 

Abraham_Lincoln_November_1863“All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”
– Abraham Lincoln*

 

 

 

 

boyd-k-packer-large“There are few things more powerful than the faithful prayers of a righteous mother.”
– Boyd K. Packer

 

 

 

ArtBook__134_134__EzraTaftBenson____[1]“Above all else, children need to know and feel they are loved, wanted, and appreciated. They need to be assured of that often. Obviously, this is a role parents should fill, and most often the mother can do it best.”
– Ezra Taft Benson

 

 

davidomckay“No greater responsibility can rest upon any man [or woman] than to be a teacher of God’s children.”
– David O. McKay

 

 

 

Lorenzo Snow“We have been sent into the world to do good to others; and in doing good to others we do good to ourselves.  We should always keep this in view, the husband in reference to his wife, the wife in reference to her husband, the children in reference to their parents, and the parents in reference to their children.  There is always opportunity to do good to one another.”
– Lorenzo Snow

 

 

richard-g-scott-large“I don’t know what it’s like to be a woman, but I know what it’s like to love one.”
– Richard G. Scott

 

 

 

heber-j-grant“Motherhood thus becomes a holy calling, a sacred dedication for carrying out the Lord’s plans, a consecration of devotion to the uprearing and fostering, the nurturing in body, mind, and spirit, of those who kept their first estate and who come to this earth for their second estate ‘to see if they will do all things whatsoever the Lord their God shall command them.’ To lead them to keep their second estate is the work of motherhood, and ‘they who keep their second estate shall have glory added upon their heads for ever and ever. This divine service of motherhood can be rendered only by mothers. It may not be passed to others. Nurses cannot do it; public nurseries cannot do it; hired help cannot do it—only mother, aided as much as may be by the loving hands of father, brothers, and sisters, can give the full needed measure of watchful care. The mother who entrusts her child to the care of others, that she may do non-motherly work, whether for gold, for fame, or for civic service should remember that ‘a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.’ In our day the Lord has said that unless parents teach their children the doctrines of the Church ‘the sin be upon the heads of the parents.’ Motherhood is near to Divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind. It places her who honors its holy calling and service next to the angels. To you mothers in Israel we say, God bless and protect you, and give you the strength and courage, the faith and knowledge, the holy love and consecration to duty, that shall enable you to fill to the fullest measure the sacred calling which is yours. To you mothers and mothers-to-be we say: Be chaste, keep pure, live righteously, that your posterity to the last generation may call you blessed.”
– First Presidency, 1942