SINGLE PARENTING

1.  "You are striving to raise your children in righteousness and truth, knowing that while you cannot change the past, you can shape the future."

David S. Baxter, Faith, Fortitude, Fulfillment: A Message to Single Parents, April 2012 General Conference

2.  "The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.  Single parents, most of whom are mothers, perform an especially heroic service."

James E. Faust, Father, Come Home, April 1993 General Conference

3.  "To mothers raising children alone, remember that you and the Lord constitute a majority.  As your arms encircle your little ones, His arms are there, too.  Feel secure, for His arms are lengthened out toward us all the day long."

Mary F. Foulger, Motherhood and the Family, October 1980 General Conference

4.  "Don’t you quit. You keep walking. You keep trying. There is help and happiness ahead—a lot of it—30 years of it now, and still counting. You keep your chin up. It will be all right in the end. Trust God and believe in good things to come.”
Jeffrey R. Holland, "An High Priest of Good Things to Come," October 1999 General Conference

5.  “Stay on the Lord’s side, and you will win every time.”

Richard G. Scott, For Peace At Home, April 2013 General Conference

6.  “Even when it may seem very difficult to pray, kneel and ask Father in Heaven to give you the capacity to trust Him and to feel His love for you."

Richard G. Scott, To Heal the Shattering Consequences of Abuse, April 2008 General Conference

7. "But the test a loving God has set before us is not to see if we can endure difficulty. It is to see if we can endure it well. We pass the test by showing that we remembered Him and the commandments He gave us. And to endure well is to keep those commandments whatever the opposition, whatever the temptation, and whatever the tumult around us."
Henry B. Eyring, In the Strength of the Lord, April 2004 General Conference

8.  "Our challenge is to endure. There will always be testings and trials along life’s paths. Heartaches and tragedies need not defeat us if we remember God’s promise."

Marvin J. Ashton, "If Thou Endure It Well," October 1984 General Conference

9.  ". . . never feel that you are in some kind of second-tier subcategory of Church membership, somehow less entitled to the Lord’s blessings than others. In the kingdom of God there are no second-class citizens."
David S. Baxter, Faith, Fortitude, Fulfillment: A Message to Single Parents, April 2012 General Conference

10.  "Think about your life and set your priorities. Find some quiet time regularly to think deeply about where you are going and what you will need to do to get there. Jesus, our exemplar, often “withdrew himself into the wilderness, and prayed” (Luke 5:16). We need to do the same thing occasionally to rejuvenate ourselves spiritually as the Savior did."

M. Russell Ballard, Keeping Life's Demands in Balance, April 1987 General Conference