"We can begin with a one week's food supply and gradually build it to a month, and then to three months. I am speaking now of food to cover basic needs.
Gordon B. Hinckley, Ensign, Nov. 2002)
"The revelation to store food may be as essential to our temporal salvation today as boarding the ark was to the people in the days of Noah."
Ezra Taft Benson, Ensign, Jan. 1974
"We encourage you to grow all the food that you feasibly can on your own property. Berry bushes, grapevines, fruit trees--plant them if your climate is right for their growth. Grow vegetables and eat them from your own yard. Even those residing in apartments or condominiums can generally grow a little food in pots and planters...Make your garden as neat and attractive as well as productive. If there are children in your home, involve them in the process with assigned responsibilities." Spencer W. Kimball Ensign May 1976
"We expect the individual to do all he can to help himself whether it be an emergency for a single family or for a whole community, that the relatives will do all they can to help, then the Church steps in with commodities from the storehouse, with fast offerings to meet their needs that commodities from the storehouse will not supply, and finally the Relief Society and the priesthood quorums will assist with rehabilitation. "
Teachings of President of the Church Harold B. Lee [2000], 171
"[The pioneers] were taught by their leaders to produce, as far as possible, all that they consumed, and to be frugal and not wasteful of their substance. This is still excellent counsel."
Joseph Fielding Smith, "The Pioneer Spirit", Improvement Era, July 1970, 3
"We feel led to caution the Latter-day Saints against forming the bad habit of incurring debt and taking upon themselves obligations which frequently burden them heavier than they can bear, and lead to the loss of their homes and other possessions...Our business should be done, as much as possible, on the principle of paying for that which we purchase, and our needs should be brought within the limit of our resources."
Wilford Woodruff, Teachings of Presidents of the Church, Wilford Woodruff [2004] 232-33
"How on the face of the earth could a man enjoy his religion when he had been told by the Lord how o prepare for a day of famine, when instead of doing so he had fooled away that which would have sustained him and his family."
George Albert Smith Deseret News, March 4, 1868, 26
"If you are without bread, how much wisdom can you boast and of what real utility are your talents, if you cannot procure for yourselves and save against a day of scarcity those substances designed to sustain your natural lives?" Brigham Young, Deseret News, July 18, 1860, 153
Found in Ensign, August 2007, p. 33
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