“To all the rising generation, we say, wherever you rank
your own father on the scale of good-better-best (and I predict that ranking
will go higher as you grow older and wiser), make up your mind to honor him and
your mother by your own life. Remember the yearning hope of a father as
expressed by John: ‘I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in
truth.’ Your righteousness is the greatest honor any father can receive. To my
brethren, the fathers in this Church, I say I know you wish you were a more
perfect father. I know I wish I were. Even so, despite our limitations, let us
press on. Let us lay aside the exaggerated notions of individualism and
autonomy in today’s culture and think first of the happiness and well-being of
others. Surely, despite our inadequacies, our Heavenly Father will magnify us
and cause our simple efforts to bear fruit.” – Elder D. Todd Christofferson
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