Relief Society Quotes

• Be spiritually independent enough that your relationship with the Savior doesn't depend on your circumstances or on what other people say and do. Have the spiritual independence to be a Mormon--the best Mormon you can--in your own way. Not the bishop's way. Not the Relief Society president's way. Your way.

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  Chieko N. Okazaki

  Spiritual   Independent   People  

  Chieko N. Okazaki (1993). “Lighten Up!”, Deseret Book Company

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• Superficial parallels were drawn between the Church and the Nazi Party, with its emphasis on active involvement by every member. The women's auxiliary of the Party and the Hitler Youth were regarded by some as secular equivalents to the Church's Relief Society, MIA, and the Scouting programs.

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  Fawn M. Brodie

  Party   Church   Relief  

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• my belonging to relief society has renewed, strengthened, and committed me to be a better wife and mother and daughter of God. my heart has been enlarged with gospel understanding and with love of the Savior and what He's done for me. so to you, dear sisters, i say: come to relief society! it will fill your homes with love and charity; it will nurture and strengthen you and your families. your home needs your righteous heart.

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  Bonnie D. Parkin

  Daughter   Mother   Home  

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• This great circle of sisters will be a protection for each of you and for your families. The Relief Society might be likened to a refuge- the place of safety and protection- the sanctuary of ancient times. You will be safe within it. It encircles each sister like a protecting wall.

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  Boyd K. Packer

  Wall   Circles   Safety  

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• The ability to qualify for, receive, and act on personal revelation is the single most important skill that can be acquired in this life.

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  Julie B. Beck

  Skills   Personality   Important  

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• This society is not only to relieve the poor, but to save souls.

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  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Soul   Poor   This Society  

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• There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity i am bought and sold; for them i will go to prison, if need be; but your miscellaneous popular charities; the education at college of fools; the building of meeting-houses to the vain end to which many now stand; alms to sots; and the thousandfold Relief Societies; - though i confess with shame i sometimes succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar which by and by i shall have the manhood to withhold.

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  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual   College   Class  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.12, Penguin

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