Small Things...Create an Eternal Family

"In that most important of places, our homes, we learn best how it is that “out of small things proceedeth that which is great,” for life at home is a series of small things that combine to create an eternal family.

Virginia U. Jensen,
“Ripples,” Ensign, Nov 2000, 92–94

Home for Christ to Linger...

“A true Mormon home is one in which if Christ should chance to enter, he would be pleased to linger and to rest.”

David O. McKay
Gospel Ideals (1953), 169.
Quoted in Nov 2004 Ensign.

The home is the laboratory...

"The home is the laboratory of our lives, and what we learn there largely determines what we do when we leave there."

—President Thomas S. Monson, Ensign, Nov. 1988, 69

C. S. Lewis on the value of housework...

"A housewife's work...is surely in reality the most important work in the world. What do ships, railways, mines, cars, government, etc. exist for except that people may be fed, warmed, and safe in their own homes?... We wage war in order to have peace, we work in order to have leisure, we produce food in order to eat it. So your job is the one for which all others exist,"

Letters of C. S. Lewis, London: Godfrey Publishing Company, 262.