Daughters in My Kingdom/June Quotes

For an uplifting summer book to read, go to the Daughters in My Kingdom page at lds.org:

http://www.lds.org/relief-society/daughters-in-my-kingdom?lang=eng

 

To learn about how Daughters in My Kingdom came about and hear inspiring conversations about it go to mormonchannel.org and look for Daughters in My Kingdom episodes 1 thru 8. Here is a link to Daughters in My Kingdom episode 1.

http://mormonchannel.org/relief-society/daughters-in-my-kingdom/1

If you click on the pull down menu on the page above you can find the rest of the Daughters in My Kingdom episodes, along with Visiting Teaching conversations 1 thru 18 and question and answer conversations 1 thru 18. There are literally hours and hours of great gospel discussions for those who are interested.

 

June Quotes:

  

From Daughters in My Kingdom pg. 159

A newspaper reporter summarized Sister Smith’s repeated message: “‘Hold your heads high, you wives, mothers, homemakers. You engender life and enrich it. Don’t trade that pervasive force for fleeting, surface trinkets. Cherish it, enlarge it, magnify it. You hold a mighty office.’ That’s the message of the leader of Mormon women, Barbara B. Smith.”³⁴

From Daughters in My Kingdom pg. 161

“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.”

Ezra Taft Benson

The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson (1988), 515

From Daughters in My Kingdom pg. xiii

Sister Belle S. Spafford, the ninth Relief Society general president, said: “The average woman today, I believe, would do well to appraise her interests, evaluate the activities 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.”³

 

From Daughters in My Kingdom pg. 51

The Latter-day Saints gathered in the Salt Lake Valley after having been persecuted and forced from their homes and communities multiple times. Now that they had migrated to a faraway and isolated desert, President Brigham Young wanted them to flourish and establish a permanent home for themselves. He wanted them to be safe from physical harm, and he also wanted them to keep themselves safe from worldly influences that could harm their faith and their testimonies. He wanted them to be independent from worldly influences, both temporally and spiritually.