Ellen Key Quotes

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

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.

God comes first. Paradise is not cheap.

God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.

We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

I didn't come to Christianity for money, I came to Christianity because this is the way we can live a better life.

Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.

For the believing Christian, death is no big deal….For the nonbeliever, on the other hand, to deprive a man of his life is to end his existence. What a horrible act!

Remembering the facts of death and Heaven gives us an even more pressing reason to learn to pray: We do not have an infinite amount of time. We are one day nearer Home today than we ever were before. I guarantee you that after you die you will not say 'I spent too much time praying; I wish I had watched more TV instead.'

Christianity makes of life a moral drama in which we play a starring role and in which the most ordinary events take on a grand significance.

For victory in life, we've got to keep focused on the goal, and the goal is Heaven.

It is important for those of us who are Christian to remember that our physical lives don't last forever. Our souls will last an eternity, and thus we should place even more emphasis on the health of our souls than the health of our bodies.

Learning by faith and from experience are two of the central features of the Father's plan of happiness. The Savior preserved moral agency through the Atonement and made it possible for us to act and to learn by faith.

I'm ensuring my place in heaven.

Helping someone come to a saving knowledge of Christ is the greatest achievement possible.

Death is not the end; it is but one more step in a great forward march made possible by the redemption wrought by the Savior. This is the spirit of true science - constant and eternal seeking.

I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

As long as I loved and served Christ I could be anything I wanted to be.

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.'

Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.

God loves us all, wants us all to share his kingdom, has a role for us all.

I really don't see a reason why you wouldn't want to have a relationship with Jesus Christ. I mean, not only was He the greatest human being to ever walk the earth, He's everything that I want to strive for. He's everything that anyone should ever want to strive for.

I don't know; I think I'd be gloomy without some faith that there is a purpose and there is a kind of witness to my life.

The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel, full of the knowledge of God, of examples of virtues, and of correction of vices, of the end of this life, and of the life to come.