If our bodies are sick, we seek to heal them. We do not give up. The same thing should be true of our marriages.
Interpretation
Just as we seek to heal our sick bodies, we should also strive to improve and heal our marriages.
Dallin H. Oaks emphasizes the importance of treating our marriages with the same urgency and dedication that we apply to our physical health. When facing challenges in a relationship, rather than giving up, we must actively work to understand and remedy the issues, fostering growth and healing in our partnerships.
In practice
In a marriage counseling session, this quote could be used to encourage couples to actively work on their relationship.
Tolerance obviously requires a non-contentious manner of relating toward one another’s differences. But tolerance does not require abandoning one’s standards or one’s opinions on political or public policy choices. Tolerance is a way of reacting to diversity, not a command to insulate it from examination.
I testify of our Savior, Jesus Christ, whose teachings and example we seek to follow. He invites all of us who are heavy laden to come unto Him, to learn of Him, to follow Him, and thus to find rest to our souls.
The most powerful teaching of children is by the example of their parents.
We should refrain from anything that seems to be a final judgment of any person...the Lord alone has the capacity to judge...And, in all of this we must remember the command to forgive.
Man unquestionably has impressive powers... But after all our obedience and good works, we cannot be saved from the effects of our sins without the grace extended by the atonement of Jesus Christ... Man cannot earn his own salvation.
In order to ask with real intent or to act with full purpose of heart, we must always make an accompanying commitment.
Too many women are forced to abort by poverty, by their menfolk, by their parents. A choice is only possible if there are genuine alternatives.
There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
The degree to which I can create relationships, which facilitate the growth of others as separate persons, is a measure of the growth I have achieved in myself.
Most of us have jobs that require some handling of other peoples' feelings and our own, and in that sense, we are all partly flight attendants.
The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen.
The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
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