Joseph Smith Jr. Quotes

If there is a heaven, I don't know anything else I can do to get there - and neither do you.

It is a common assumption that a person's good works will get them into Heaven.

I'm ensuring my place in heaven.

My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity, that it will be by a flash of lightning.

The purpose of God's creations and of His giving us life is to allow us to have the learning experience necessary for us to come back to Him, to live with Him in eternal life.

The strong argument for Heaven as a place centers in and clusters about Jesus. The man Jesus, bearing a man's form, the body He wore on earth, has a place assigned Him - a high place.

Why is everybody afraid of going to Heaven? You want to be here with the smog and the sin and bad people and the war? Or do you want to be in Heaven, sitting next to Jesus, you know?

Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurrection. Let him say not merely, 'Christ is risen,' but 'I shall rise.'

Someday I suspect, when Jesus has definitely got me for a sunbeam, my works may be adequately assessed.

God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.

I'm terrified about the day that I enter the gates of heaven and God says to me, just a minute.

It is my conviction that those who disregard the reality of Heaven will ultimately find themselves on the wrong side of history.

I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.

I believe when I leave this earth, because I love the Lord, I am going straight to Heaven.

The literal resurrection of every soul who has lived and died on earth is a certainty, and surely one should make careful preparation for this event. A glorious resurrection should be the goal of every man and woman, for resurrection will be a reality.

Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.

Not even death can take us from the eternal blessings promised by a loving Heavenly Father.

I hope when I'm 80 that I get to Heaven and God doesn't recognise me.

Each and every one of us, at the end of the journey of life, will come face to face with either one or the other of two faces... And one of them, either the merciful face of Christ or the miserable face of Satan, will say, "Mine, mine." May we be Christ's!

Let us consider this settled, that no one has made progress in the school of Christ who does not joyfully await the day of death and final resurrection.

If you have no share in the living Lord may God have mercy upon you! If you have no share in Christ's rising from the dead then you will not be raised up in the likeness of His glorified body. If you do not attain to that resurrection from among the dead then you must abide in death.

Heaven is a wonderful place and the benefits for the believer are out of this world!

God comes first. Paradise is not cheap.

In life eternal, there is perfect joy and light, without pain or torture, and there is communion with God Himself and His angels.

Death is the operative device that sets us free in Christ - when we die, we truly live.