Richard G. Scott Quotes

There is no substitute for marrying in the temple.

If someone wants to marry you outside the temple, whom will you strive to please - God or a mortal? If you insist on a temple marriage, you will be pleasing the Lord and blessing the other party.

I am grateful my own eternal companion served a mission in Hawaii before we were married in the Salt Lake Temple, and I am pleased that I have had three granddaughters serve full-time missions.

None of us will honor our Heavenly Father and our Savior more than by serving as a devoted, compassionate missionary, "For them that honour me I will honour."

Dedicated missionary service returns a dividend of eternal joy which extends throughout mortality and into eternity.

Marriage is like pleading guilty to an indefinite sentence. Without parole.

Men? Sure, I've known lots of them. But I never found one I liked well enough to marry. Besides, I've always been busy with my work. Marriage is a career in itself and to make a success of it you've got to keep working at it. So until I can give the.

I am steady with my wife. I'm faithful to my wife.

If any of you would bring judgment the unfaithful wife, let him also weight the heart of her husband in scales, and measure his soul with measurements.

I know of nothing which I would choose to have as the subject of my ambition for life than to be kept faithful to my God till death.

Unless you intend your wife to be a true missionary, not merely a wife, home-maker, and friend, do not join us.

Cannot the love of Christ carry the missionary where the slave-trade carries the trader? I shall open up a path to the interior or perish.

I grew up a faithful person. I never lost faith. I prayed every day all throughout my life. But at some point in life, my faith became fairly abstract. And I lost this belief that we have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

I cared not where or how I lived, or what hardships I went through, so I could but gain souls to Christ

The reason you get married is to be together, not to be separated.

I don't like to discuss my marriage, but I will tell you something which may sound corny but which happens to be true. I have steak at home. Why should I go out for hamburger?

In Christian marriage, love is not an option. It is a duty.

Whom God has put asunder, why should man put together?

I don't think gay marriage is any threat to marriage. I think divorce is a bigger problem to marriage than anything else.

I maintain that it should cost as much to get married as to get divorced. Make it look like marriage is worth as much as divorce, even if it ain't.

Where passion for God is weak, zeal for missions will be weak.

Missionary service is a priesthood duty.

Wedlock's a lane where there is no turning.

Our lives should be more than just focusing on our marriage but on focusing our marriage toward what God's mission is for us as a couple.

The temple is holy because it is not for sale.