Institute

Eternal Marriage Student Manual

  • Contents

  • Title Page

  • Preface

  • Abortion

  • Abuse

  • Adjustments in Marriage

  • Atonement and Eternal Marriage

  • Birth Control

  • Charity

  • Commitment

  • Communication

  • Covenants and Ordinances

  • Dating Standards

  • Debt

  • Differences Inherent Between Men and Women

  • Divorce

  • Education

  • Equality of Men and Women

  • Eternal Perspective

  • The Family: A Proclamation to the World

  • Fidelity in Marriage

  • Finances

  • Foundations for Eternal Marriage

  • Happiness in Marriage

  • Holy Spirit of Promise

  • Independence

  • Intimacy in Marriage

  • Jesus Christ

  • Knowledge of Spiritual Things

  • Living Together Without Marriage

  • Love

  • Marriage for Eternity

  • Marriage Throughout the Years

  • Mate Selection

  • Maturity

  • Men’s Divine Roles and Responsibilities

  • Morality and Modesty

  • Parenthood: Creating a Gospel-Centered Home

  • Plan of Salvation

  • Pornography

  • Pride

  • Principles

  • Priorities and Balance

  • Problem Solving in Marriage

  • Prophetic Counsel

  • Same-Gender Attraction

  • Same-Sex Marriage

  • Selfishness

  • Self-Reliance

  • Single Parents

  • Temple Preparation

  • Temporal Preparedness

  • Temptations of Satan and the Natural Man

  • “The Peaceable Things of the Kingdom”

  • Traditions of the Fathers

  • Trust in Marriage

  • Unity

  • Women’s Divine Roles and Responsibilities

  • Sources Cited

  • Index

Self-Reliance


“Self-Reliance,” Eternal Marriage Student Manual (2003), 305–310

“Self-Reliance,” Eternal Marriage Student Manual, 305–310

Self-Reliance

The principle of self-reliance is spiritual as well as temporal.

—Elder L. Tom Perry

  • Becoming Self-Reliant