A father who
truly loves his children, and who is truly striving, for instance, to become a
better man, sends off to his children all kinds of messages, in a variety of
ways that let them know he loves them and that he is a serious disciple of
Jesus Christ. Then his children can more easily forgive him the tactical
errors, because his basic message is intact: he believes in God and he cares
for his family. On the other hand, for the father who is not truly serious in
his discipleship, no number of compensatory techniques or humanistic sentiments
can ever compensate for the failure of that father to teach the truth by
precept and by example.
Elder Neal A. Maxwell of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles,
The Neal A. Maxwell Quote Book,
ed. Cory H. Maxwell (1997), 122.
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