Words matter. These are the best Sheri L. Dew Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The decisions you are making right now and that you will make in the foreseeable months and years will absolutely determine whether you pivot towards the world or towards the Lord.
You cannot have a relationship with someone you can’t trust.
No 11-year-old girl wants to be 5-10. I always felt big and unattractive.
Relief Society can help us turn away from the world, for its express purpose is to help sisters and their families come unto Christ.
There isn’t anyone who wants to see me married more than I do.
By the time I turned 12, I was a 5-foot 10-inch social disaster. Towering over my friends was the bane of my adolescence.
Being steadfast and immovable with our heels in tar on the Lord’s side of the line is the only strategy that works long-term against Lucifer.
It is easier to motivate people to do something difficult than something easy.
God our Father and His Son Jesus Christ, with Their perfect foreknowledge, already recommended every one of you to fill your mortal probation during the most decisive period in the history of the world.
Sisters, we as women are not diminished by priesthood power – we are magnified by it. I know this is true, for I have experienced it again and again.
Satan understands the power of men and women united in righteousness. He is still stinging from his banishment into eternal exile after Michael led the hosts of heaven, comprised of valiant men and women united in the cause of Christ, against him.
I was raised on a farm in Kansas where we lived next door to my Grandma Dew, and I was her shadow. We went everywhere together – to the bank, the doctor, the Early Bird Garden Club, and to an endless procession of Church meetings.
As sisters in Zion, we can be obstacles to the adversary’s conspiracy against families and virtue.
The pain of loneliness seems to be part of the mortal experience. But the Lord in His mercy has made it so that we need never deal with the challenges of mortality alone.
Motherhood is more than bearing children, though it is certainly that. It is the essence of who we are as women. It defines our very identity, our divine stature and nature, and the unique traits our Father gave us.
For reasons known to the Lord, some women are required to wait to have children. This delay is not easy for any righteous woman. But the Lord’s timetable for each of us does not negate our nature.
The blessings of the priesthood are available to every righteous man and woman. We may all receive the Holy Ghost, obtain personal revelation, and be endowed in the temple, from which we emerge ‘armed’ with power.
I was a friend during school time, but not much after that. By the time I got to BYU, I was a social mess, an absolute misfit. There is not a shyer, more pathetic kid who stepped on that BYU campus than me.
I am innately very shy, and I have struggled with that challenge for years.
I had a lot of friends who were boys. I played ball with them, but we didn’t date. They didn’t ask me that much because I wasn’t cute enough or because I didn’t drink or party.
Our responsibility is to learn to draw upon the power of the Atonement. Otherwise, we walk through mortality relying solely on our own strength.
I drove a tractor almost as soon as I could reach the pedals.
Think about what there is to learn from your heritage, good and bad, and about what you want to cultivate and not cultivate.
Neither man nor woman is perfect or complete without the other. Thus, no marriage or family, no ward or stake is likely to reach its full potential until husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, men and women work together in unity of purpose, respecting and relying upon each other’s strengths.
In this world, the only true joy comes from the gospel – the joy that radiates from the Atonement and from ordinances that transcend the veil, and from the Comforter that salves our souls.
Without the presence of the Spirit, it is impossible to comprehend our personal mission or to have the reassurance that our course is right.
We are all farmers tending a little part of the Lord’s vineyard.
Most significantly, the fullness of the priesthood contained in the highest ordinances of the house of the Lord can be received only by a man and woman together.
By virtue of who we are, what we know, the promises we made to our Heavenly Father, and the fact that we are living now and where we are living, I absolutely think we were all born to lead.
The power of the priesthood heals, protects, and inoculates all of the righteous against the powers of darkness.
The Lord needed the strength of the women of this Church as the seeds of the Restoration were planted and nourished.
Motherhood is not what was left over after our Father blessed His sons with priesthood ordination. It was the most ennobling endowment He could give His daughters, a sacred trust that gave women an unparalleled role in helping His children keep their second estate.
The gospel of Jesus Christ is all about people. It’s about leaving the ninety and nine and going into the wilderness after those who are lost. It’s about bearing one another’s burdens, with the ultimate burden anyone can bear being walking through this life without light.
My whole life, I’ve felt like I didn’t quite measure up.
There is no greater name for a leader than mother or father. There is no leadership more important than parenthood.
For the Holy Ghost blesses us with optimism and wisdom at times of challenge that we simply cannot muster on our own.
Regardless of your marital status, your age, or the language you speak, you are a beloved spirit daughter of Heavenly Father who is destined to play a critical part in the onward movement of the gospel kingdom.
There is nothing this confused world needs more, nothing that inspires a greater sense of well-being, nothing that has greater power to strengthen families than the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Men and women who sell their birthright for a mess of pottage will tell you that their demise began with something small, with some seemingly insignificant breach of integrity that escalated. The little things do matter. It is not possible to profess righteousness while flirting with sin.
We were all born to lead.
My progress on the piano and my motivation to practice increased dramatically when I caught a vision of my potential.
Very simply, our physical and spiritual safety lies in never even getting close to the line that separates light from dark, good from evil.
Satan has declared war on motherhood. He knows that those who rock the cradle can rock his earthly empire. And he knows that without righteous mothers loving and leading the next generation, the Kingdom of God will fail.
It is by letting the world go and coming unto Christ that we increasingly live as women of God.
