Joseph Smith, Jr. Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• It must be emphasized that as a father, you are always teaching. For good or ill your family learns your ways, your beliefs, your heart, your ideas, your concerns. Your children may or may not choose to follow you, but the example you give is the greatest light you hold before your children, and you are accountable for that light.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Children, Father, Teaching

• We may come to Jesus and ask Him; He will know all about it; if He comes to a little child, he will adapt himself to the language and capacity of a little child.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Jesus, Children, May

• That which is wrong under one circumstance, may be, and often is, right under another. God said, 'Thou shalt not kill'; at another time He said, 'Thou shalt utterly destroy.' This is the principle on which the government of heaven is conducted—by revelation adapted to the circumstances in which the children of the kingdom are placed. Whatever God requires is right, no matter what it is, although we may not see the reason thereof till long after the events transpire.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Children, Government, Often Is

• The greatest responsibility in this world that God has laid upon us is to seek after our dead. The apostle says, 'They without us cannot be made perfect'; for it is necessary that the sealing power should be in our hands to seal our children and our dead for the fulness of the dispensation of times-a dispensation to meet the promises made by Jesus Christ before the foundation of the world for the salvation of man.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Jesus, Children, Responsibility

• A question may be asked, 'Will mothers have their children in eternity?' Yes! Yes! Mothers, you shall have your children.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Mother, Children, May

• Eternity is full of thrones, upon which dwell thousands of children reigning on thrones of glory, with not one cubit added to their stature.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Children, Thrones, Glory

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