"Our influence comes from being trustworthy and keeping our covenants.  It comes from who you are inside, not from an external mandate."

Julie B. Beck, "Sister Julie B. Beck: Continuing the Legacy," LDS Living, March/April 2012

"I've become more comfortable with how uncomfortable it is. The Atonement covers our ineffectiveness and insufficiencies, and it's my whole dependence on the Lord that makes it possible for me to become more comfortable with the burden [of being the General Relief Society President.]"

Julie B. Beck, "Sister Julie B. Beck: Continuing the Legacy," LDS Living, March/April 2012

"We can't expect to be 'fit companions of the Gods,' like Eliza R. Snow said, if we haven't had to do the work to become that.  A lot of that is lonely work between us and the Lord and calling upon His Atonement to help us through our experience.  The journey is what makes us."

Julie B. Beck, "Sister Julie B. Beck: Continuing the Legacy," LDS Living, March/April 2012