WOMEN OF GOD

Man and Women Perfect each Other
Sheri Dew

“[Satan] would have us believe men and women are so alike that our unique gifts are not necessary, or so different we can never hope to understand each other. Neither is true. Our Father knew exactly what He was doing when He created us. He made us enough alike to love each other, but enough different that we would need to unite our strengths and stewardships to create a whole. Neither man nor woman is perfect or complete without the other.”


Men and Women Assigned Different Roles in Mortality
M. Russell Ballard

Heavenly Father assigned different responsibilities in mortality to men and women. To His sons He gave the priesthood and the responsibilities of fatherhood, and to His daughters He gave the responsibilities of motherhood...God has revealed through His prophets that men are to receive the priesthood, to become fathers, and with gentleness and pure, unfeigned love to lead and nurture their families in righteousness, taking for their pattern the way the Savior leads the Church. Men have also been given the primary responsibility for providing for the temporal and physical needs of the family. Women have the ability to bring children into the world and have been given the primary role and opportunity to lead, nurture, and teach their little ones in a loving, safe, and spiritual environment. In this divinely sanctioned partnership, husbands and wives work together. Why this pattern is the approved pattern is not entirely clear. The Lord has chosen to reveal only His will on the matter, not His reasoning. Indeed, the reasons are unimportant as far as we are concerned, because the issue is not open to debate. Consensus and public opinion are irrelevant to a discussion of the doctrine of God, because it is mandated through revelation, not legislation or negotiation...It is an issue of faith--nothing more, nothing less.

(M. Russell Ballard, Counseling with our Councils, pp. 55-57)
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Women not Created to be like Men
President Ezra Taft Benson

You women were not created to be the same as men. Your natural attributes, affections, and personalities are entirely different from a man's. They consist of faithfulness, benevolence, kindness and charity. They give you the personality of a woman. They also balance the more aggressive and competitive nature of a man...We do not doubt that women have both the brain power and skills--and in some instances superior abilities--to compete with men. But by competing they must of necessity, become aggressive and competitive. Thus their godly attributes are diminished and they acquire a quality of sameness with man.

(Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson, pp. 547-48)
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Women of God
Margaret Nadauld

Women of God can never be like women of the world. The world has enough women who are tough; we need women who are tender. There are enough women who are coarse; we need women who are kind. There are enough women who are rude; we need women who are refined. We have enough women of fame and fortune; we need more women of faith. We have enough greed; we need more goodness. We have enough vanity; we need more virtue. We have enough popularity; we need more purity.

(Margaret D. Nadauld, CR, Oct. 2000, pp. 16-17)
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Support your Wives
President Spencer W. Kimball

Let us support the sisters of our household in their Church callings as they so wonderfully support us. Let us not neglect them simply because they sometimes go on being good even when they are neglected.
Let our homes be filled with praise and commendation for all those of our household. Let us not get so carried away with our priesthood peers, those men we are associated with in our church assignments, that we neglect our eternal companions, for our association with our wives will be forever.

(President Spencer W. Kimball, CR, Oct. 1978, p. 63)
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Honor Unto Our Wives
President Spencer W. Kimball

Peter urged us to give honor unto our wives (1 Peter 3:7). It seems to me we should be even more courteous to our wives and mothers, our sisters and our daughters, than we are to others. When Paul said that a man who did not provide for his own household was "worse than an infidel" (1 Tim. 5:8), I like to think of providing them with affectional security as well as economic security. When the Lord told us in this dispensation that "women have claim on their husbands for their maintenance" (D&C 83:2), I like to think of the maintenance as including our obligation to maintain loving affection and to provide consideration and thoughtfulness as well as food.


(President Kimball, CR, Oct. 1978, pp. 62-63)

Motherhood near to Divinity
"Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the Highest, Holiest service to be assumed by mankind. It places her who honors its holy calling and service next to angels."
-James R. Clark