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Ne 1:1 I,
Nephi, having been born of goodly parents
Joseph F. Smith
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¡°After
all, to do well those things which God ordained to be the common lot of all
man-kind, is the truest greatness. To be
a successful father or a successful mother is greater than to be a successful
general or a successful statesman. One is universal and eternal greatness, the
other is ephemeral¡¦.Let us not be trying to substitute and artificial life for
the true one.¡± (Gospel Doctrine, p. 358, taken from Latter-day
Commentary on the Book of Mormon, compiled by K. Douglas Bassett, p.2)
Heber J. Grant
¡°We have heard gratitude expressed by
many of the speakers because they, like Nephi of old, have been born of goodly
parents. I feel that I would be unworthy the wonderful teachings and the
magnificent and splendid example of a widowed mother who reared me, if I too
did not lift my voice here today and thank God for a mother who loved Him, who
loved the religion of Jesus Christ, whose life was an example above reproach,
than whom I knew no more loyal, patriotic and true Woman among the Latter-day
Saints. I thank the Lord for my father, although I never knew him. I have had
love lavished upon me by the leaders of this Church and by influential men from
one end of this country to the other, because of the love and respect which
they felt for my father¡¦ It is indeed a wonderful and a splendid thing to be
born of goodly parents; and it is one of the saddest of all sad things where
the sons and the daughters of goodly parents are recreant to the faith of their
parents, when they are careless and indifferent, where they fail to honor their
fathers and their mothers, and thereby fail to honor their God, where they
follow after the things of this world, and allow the ideas of men to blind
them.¡± (Conference Report, April 1913, p. 112 - 113.)
Carlos E. Asay
¡°I¡¯m convinced that special blessings
await the youth who reverence their parents through the good times and the bad
times-when honest mistakes are made and when the wise suggestions prove to be
right. Most of us, like Nephi, were born of ¡®goodly
parents,¡¯ and the best we can offer in return is to strive to be goodly
children.¡±(The Road to Somewhere: A Guide for Young Men and Women, p.
94.)