Clumsy Prayers

Don't worry about your clumsily expressed feelings. Just talk to your Father. He hears every prayer and answers it in His way.

Richard G. Scott, "Agency and Answers: Recognizing Revelation," Ensign, June 2014, 49.

Hastening the Work

We as spirit children of our Heavenly Father were sent to earth at this time that we might participate in hastening this great work.

Thomas S. Monson, "Hastening the Work," Ensign, June 2014, 4.

Temples are the Reason

The temple is the reason for everything we do in the Church. ³The temple was the reason our pioneer ancestors left their established homes and came west. It was the reason they suffered privation and even death. Temple covenants were the reason that, although babies were buried along the way, those pioneers could sing:

Come, come, ye Saints,

No toil nor labor fear;

But with joy wend your way. ⁴

Some lost everything but came into the valley with everything, really—temple ordinances, sacred covenants, and the promise of eternal life together as families.

Elaine S. Dalton, Oct 2008

Mirror of Eternity

Young women, look into the mirror of eternity. Remember who you are! See yourself as our Heavenly Father sees you. You are elect. You are of noble birth. Don’t compromise your divine inheritance. You were born to be a queen. Live so you are worthy to enter the temple and there receive “all that [the] Father hath.” ¹⁸Develop deep beauty. There is no more beautiful sight than a young woman who glows with the light of the Spirit, who is confident and courageous because she is virtuous.

Elaine S. Dalton

He Knows You

 I want you to be proud you are a woman. I want you to feel the reality of what that means, to know who you truly are. You are literally a spirit daughter of heavenly parents with a divine nature and an eternal destiny. ¹That surpassing truth should be fixed deep in your soul and be fundamental to every decision you make as you grow into mature womanhood. There could never be a greater authentication of your dignity, your worth, your privileges, and your promise. Your Father in Heaven knows your name and knows your circumstance. He hears your prayers. He knows your hopes and dreams, including your fears and frustrations. And He knows what you can become through faith in Him. 

Jeffrey R. Holland

Young Woman Performing Miracles

Yes, 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 faithfully attends her church meetings, who is a seminary graduate, who has earned her Young Womanhood Recognition Award and wears it with pride! 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.

Ezra Taft Bens

Decide to Take a Step

"[Family history] does not require a large block of time. Just a little time on a consistent basis will yield the joy of the work. Make the decision to take the step."

Elder Allan F. Packer, "The Book," Ensign, Nov. 2014, 101.