Self-Reliance/Provident Living #2

"Independence and self-reliance are critical to our spiritual and temporal growth. Whenever we get into situations which threaten our self-reliance, we will find our freedoms threatened as well. If we increase our dependence on anything or anyone except the Lord, we will find an immediate decrease Relief Society Magazine, Oct. 1937, p. 627.)"

in our freedom to act. As President Heber J. Grant declared, “Nothing destroys the individuality of a man, a woman, or a child as much as the failure to be self-reliant.” (

Elder L. Tom Perry, "Becoming Self-Reliant," General Conference October 1991