 “You sisters are the real builders of the nation wherever you live, for you have created homes of strength and peace and security. These become the very sinew of any nation.”
— President Gordon B. Hinckley
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 “Mothers in Zion, your God-given roles are so vital to your own exaltation and to the salvation and exaltation of your family. A child needs a mother more than all the things money can buy. Spending time with your children is the greatest gift of all.”
— President Ezra Taft Benson
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 “We have often said, 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; kind relatives cannot do it. Only by mother ... can the full needed measure of watchful care be given.”
— President Spencer W. Kimball
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 “Motherhood is the greatest potential influence either for good or for ill in human life. The mother’s image is the first that stamps itself on the unwritten page of the young child’s mind. It is her caress that first awakens a sense of security; her kiss, the first realization of affection; her sympathy and tenderness, the first assurance that there is love in the world.”
— President David O. McKay
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 “There seems to be a power which the mother possesses in shaping the life of a child that is far superior ... to the power of the father, and this almost without exception. … After all it is by love, real genuine love of our fellows, that we accomplish the most.
— President Heber J. Grant
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 “The priesthood cannot work out its destiny, nor can God’s purposes be fulfilled, without our helpmates. Mothers perform a labor the priesthood cannot do. For this gift of life, the priesthood should have love unbounded for the mothers of their children.”
— President Howard W. Hunter
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 “Speaking of mothers, the First Presidency said: ‘Motherhood thus becomes a holy calling ... 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.’ …”
— Elder Boyd K. Packer
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