![]() ![]() Hinckley)ġ2) “We are a covenant people willing to make sacrifices to get to the Tree.” (Mary Ellen Smoot, private conversation)ġ3) “We must cherish one another, watch over one another, comfort one another and gain instruction, that we may all sit down in heaven together.” (Lucy Mack Smith)ġ4) “The average woman today, I believe, would do well to appraise her interests, evaluate the activites in which she is engaged, and then take steps to simplify her life, putting things of first importance first, placing emphasis where the rewards will be greatest and most enduring, and ridding herself of the less rewarding activities. ![]() It will assist you in various ways, and you will bless the lives of many-your families and others-now and in the years to come, as you put on paper some of your experiences and some of your musings.” (Gordon B. Dew, We are Women of God, Ensign, Nov 1999)ġ1) “To you women of today, who are old or young, may I suggest that you write, that you keep journals, that you express your thoughts on paper. Beck, Fall 2008 RS Women’s Meeting)ġ0) “The adversary is delighted when we act like sightseers, meaning those who are hearers rather than doers of the word, or shoppers, meaning those preoccupied with the vain things of this world that suffocate our spirits.” (Sheri L. 1945)Ĩ) “The nearer we get to our Heavenly Father, the more we are disposed to look with compassion on perishing souls we feel that we want to take them upon our shoulders, and cast their sins behind our backs.” (Joseph Smith, spoken at a meeting of the Female Relief Society, at the Grove, Nauvoo, Jun 9, 1842)ĩ) “The purpose of Relief Society, as established by the Lord, is to organize, teach, and inspire His daughters to prepare them for the blessings of eternal life.” (Pres. Not only you belonging to the Church have enjoyed the blessing of equality, but when the Prophet Joseph Smith turned the key for the emancipation of womankind, it was turned for all the world, and from generation to generation the number of women who can enjoy the blessings of religious liberty and civil liberty has been increasing.” (President George Albert Smith, Relief Society Magazine, Dec. Since that time, think what benefits the women of this world have enjoyed. It was God that gave it to you and it came as a result of revelation to a Prophet of the Lord. You were the first women to have the franchise the first women to have a voice in the work of a church. 7, Deseret News Press, 1942.)ħ) “You are…more blessed than any other women in all the world. Smith, “A Centenary of Relief Society,” p. … No other woman’s organization in all the earth has had such a birth.” (Pres. Monson, May 2008 Ensign, Looking Back and Moving Forward)Ħ) “We ask our Sisters of the Relief Society never to forget that they are a unique organization in the whole world, for they were organized under the inspiration of the Lord. Hinckley)ĥ) “The Lord has declared, ‘If ye are not one ye are not mine.’ We will continue to be united in one purpose–namely, the furtherance of the work of the Lord.” (Pres. ![]() You have made your election, and if you are living worthy of it, the Lord will honor you in it and magnify you.” (Gordon B. You have come out of the world as partakers of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. ![]() Kimball, November 1979 Ensign, The Role of Righteous Women)ģ) “This society is not only to relieve the poor, but to save souls. ” (Joseph Smith, RS Minute Book, 1842)Ĥ) “Emma was called “an elect lady.” That is, to use another line of scripture, she was a “chosen vessel of the Lord.” (See Moro. This will happen to the degree that the women of the Church reflect righteousness and articulateness in their lives and to the degree that the women of the church are seen as distinct and different–in happy ways–from the women of the world. ” (President Spencer W. A call to live as women of God so that we and our families may return safely home. ” (Sheri Dew, November 1999 Ensign, We are Women of God)Ģ) “Much of the major growth that is coming to the Church in the last days will come because many of the good women of the world will be drawn to the Church in large numbers. A call to “arise and shine forth, that our light may be a standard for the nations. A call to rely on the arm of the Lord rather than the arm of flesh. A call to arm ourselves with power and with righteousness. 1) “Sisters, this is a call to arms, it’s a call to action, a call to arise. ![]()
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