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. – Sheri L. Dew
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. – Sheri L. Dew
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. – Sheri L. Dew
I know how to set an irrigation tube, and I helped with the harvest. I learned the law of the harvest without even knowing I was learning it. On the farm, you learn early that you reap what you sow. – Sheri L. Dew
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. – Sheri L. Dew
As a young girl, I saw commitment in my grandmother, who helped Grandpa homestead our farm on the Kansas prairie. Somehow they outlasted the Dust Bowl, the Depression, and the tornadoes that terrorize the Great Plains. – Sheri L. Dew
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. – Sheri L. Dew
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. – Sheri L. Dew
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. – Sheri L. Dew
There is no greater name for a leader than mother or father. There is no leadership more important than parenthood. – Sheri L. Dew
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. – Sheri L. Dew
Our responsibility is to learn to draw upon the power of the Atonement. Otherwise, we walk through mortality relying solely on our own strength. – Sheri L. Dew
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. – Sheri L. Dew
You were born to lead as mothers and fathers, because nowhere is righteous leadership more crucial than in the family. – Sheri L. Dew
Relief Society can help us turn away from the world, for its express purpose is to help sisters and their families come unto Christ. – Sheri L. Dew
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. – Sheri L. Dew
It is by letting the world go and coming unto Christ that we increasingly live as women of God. – Sheri L. Dew
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. – Sheri L. Dew
If we don’t do as well as we know how and we are prepared to do, it’ll be largely because we act and make choices as though we’re going to stay here, as though this life is all there is, when that is not the case. – Sheri L. Dew
Without the presence of the Spirit, it is impossible to comprehend our personal mission or to have the reassurance that our course is right. – Sheri L. Dew
I am a basketball junkie, and as a product of the great basketball state of Kansas, I have watched many a ball game between the University of Kansas Jayhawks and the Tar Heels. – Sheri L. Dew
The power of the priesthood heals, protects, and inoculates all of the righteous against the powers of darkness. – Sheri L. Dew
As sisters in Zion, we can be obstacles to the adversary’s conspiracy against families and virtue. – Sheri L. Dew
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. – Sheri L. Dew
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. – Sheri L. Dew
