Provident Living

Teachings of President Spencer W. Kimball

"We are responsible for our own social, emotional, spiritual, physical, and economic well-being."

"The Church and its members are commanded by the Lord to be self-reliant and independent. (See D&C 78:13–14.)

The responsibility for each person’s social, emotional, spiritual, physical, or economic well-being rests first upon himself, second upon his family, and third upon the Church if he is a faithful member thereof.

No true Latter-day Saint, while physically or emotionally able, will voluntarily shift the burden of his own or his family’s well-being to someone else. So long as he can, under the inspiration of the Lord and with his own labors, he will supply himself and his family with the spiritual and temporal necessities of life. (See 1 Timothy 5:8.)5"

Source: www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/teachings-spencer-w-kimball/chapter-11?lang=eng