Quotes from Chieko N. Okazaki

If you're doing the best you can, that's good enough.

Be spiritually independent enough that your relationship with the Savior doesn't depend on your circumstances or on what other people say and do. Have the spiritual independence to be a Mormon--the best Mormon you can--in your own way. Not the bishop's way. Not the Relief Society president's way. Your way.

If you're doing the best you can, that's good enough.

Hooray for differences! Without them, there would be no harmony. In principles, great clarity. In practices, great charity.

The good news of the gospel is that who we are is okay. Our best is good enough. The Savior came for us--just as we are.

If we don't have time for masterpiece moments, the very reason we came to earth is being wasted on us.

Our real calling to be a compassionate Christian came when we stepped out of the waters of baptism… We don't need a bishop's assignment to be kind. We don't need to sign up to be thoughtful. We don't need to be sustained by our wards to be sensitive.

Sheer human decency and civility are two of the most important contributions to our community life that women of courage can make.

Be spiritually independent enough that your relationship with the Savior doesn't depend on your circumstances or on what other people say and do.

I never had a biological sister, yet the more closely I work with women in the Church, the more surely I know there is a spiritual sisterhood.

We are here to rejoice together 'in every good thing.' It is the strength and joy from a Christ-centered and Christlike life that gives us reason to rejoice.