18 What I've Learned in The Eternal Family

I decided to share a lot of the things that I have learned in my religion class, The Eternal Family, because we have a lot of really awesome discussions in that class. These are some random ideas that I found interesting or worth knowing:

• How many things is there opposition in? ALL THINGS.
• The Church exists to exalt the family
• "A horse sires a horse, a man begets a man, a god brings forth a god." (Just a cool reminder that because God is our Father, we will all be Gods one day!)
• Knowing you are a child of God and you have eternal potential is a potent anti-depressant." ~Dallin H. Oaks
• When you get married, do NOT let your foundation shift from Jesus Christ to your family. Don't worship your family. Love and serve them, but worship God
• Having an understanding of and applying the Atonement of Jesus Christ is the key to a successful marriage
• Every virtue taken to an extreme becomes a vice: confidence can become cockiness, humility can turn into low self-esteem
• Eve was Adam's helpmeet. Helpmeet: Help (from the Hebrew word Ezer)-help, rescue, or save. Meet (Kenegdo)-opposite or corresponding to
• You can't live up to cultural expectations, strive to live up to God's
• Just take it ONE DAY at a time
• For most marriage problems, the remedy is not divorce, but repentance. The problem is not incompatibility, it is selfishness
• It is a sin to dwell on self-criticizing thoughts
• "Even a rickety marriage will serve good purpose as long as two people struggle to keep it from falling down around them" ~Boyd K. Packer
• God needs to approve of a divorce. Most of the time, He doesn't, and that's what leads to the greater unhappiness.
• For people who feel they have "fallen out of love" with their spouse: Can you fall out of kindness? Can you fall out of any of the attributes the Lord gives us in His definition of love? Behavior isn't something you fall in and out of. Choose your love and love your choice.
• Sometimes our criticism is worse than the behavior we are trying to correct. 
• Feeling the Spirit while doing a spiritual activity with another person should not be confused with or taken as emotional attraction to that person
• You will have a happier marriage when you work on improving yourself, not your spouse.
• "Don't just pray to marry the one you love, pray to love the one you marry" ~ Spencer W. Kimball
• A good friend will never have you choose between their way and the Lord's way
• Converse with your spouse; never let the little things become the big things
• Selfishness suffocates spiritual senses. Pray with your spouse that you grow together and not apart
• When life gets busy and hectic, you can't make things work in your marriage if you're selfish
• If you wouldn't marry them, don't date them
• "If you fall in love with someone you should not marry, you cannot expect the Spirit to lead you out of it when you are already emotionally attached." ~Bruce C. Hafen