GEMS-Family: Marriage Is Central to Heavenly Father’s Plan

Marriage Is Central to Heavenly Father’s Plan

“We are taught that marriage is necessary for the accomplishment of
God’s plan, to provide the approved setting for mortal birth, and to
prepare family members for eternal life. ‘Marriage is ordained of God
unto man,’ the Lord said, ‘that the earth might answer the end of
its creation; and that it might be filled with the measure of man,
according to his creation before the world was made’ (D&C
49:15-17).

“Our concept of marriage is motivated by revealed
truth, not by worldly sociology. The Apostle Paul taught ‘neither is
the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the
Lord’ (1 Cor. 11:11). President Spencer W. Kimball explained,
‘Without proper and successful marriage, one will never be exalted’
(Marriage and Divorce, Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1976, p.
24).”

Topic: marriage

( Dallin H. Oaks, “The Great Plan of Happiness,” Ensign, Nov. 1993, 74)