Dieter F. Uchtdorf Quotes

In Christ the original image of God is restored, by faith in this world and by sight in the world to come.

In the Old Testament, we are continually told that our good works are not enough, that God has made a provision. This provision is pointed to at every place in the Old Testament.

God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own.

Sin does not stop God's grace from flowing, but God's grace will stop sin.

I believe that his death and resurrection transformed humanity's relationship with God.

Grace is a much more accurate word to use when dealing with the state of human existence. God gives us unmerited favor through Jesus Christ, and since Adam and Eve, our lives have depended on it.

There's no way to get around the fact that Jesus is the only way to Heaven, and He is so good that He exchanged His place in Heaven to come suffer on a cross for humanity and rose to set us free from eternal life in Hell.

God does not give us salvation because we believe. Our believing is only the normal way of receiving the salvation he freely gives.

At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.

What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the merits of Jesus Christ, our only good?

Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works; for this faith worketh by love, as the apostle says, and love to God always produces obedience to his holy laws.

Catholics should be proselytizing about a God who is love, who represents a hereafter where there's no hell, who wants you to lead a life where you can confess your sins and feel much better afterwards. Those are lovely concepts of God.

The Gospel is about grace and we all know that grace is about us receiving from God blessings that we don't deserve.

We are not forgiven because we are good. We are forgiven because Christ bore our sins.

But however long you may have continued in rebellion, and how ever black and long the catalog of your sins, yet if you will now turn to God by a sincere repentance, and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, you shall not be cast out.

God our Father and His Son Jesus Christ, with Their perfect foreknowledge, already recommended every one of you to fill your mortal probation during the most decisive period in the history of the world.

Of course God will forgive me; that's His job.

No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.

The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance.

The gospel announces that God doesn't relate to us based on our feats for Jesus, but Jesus' feats for us.

We are safe on the rock which is the Savior when we have yielded in faith in Him, have responded to the Holy Spirit's direction to keep the commandments long enough and faithfully enough that the power of the Atonement has changed our hearts.

Justification and sanctification are both God's work, and while they can and must be distinguished, the Bible won't let us separate them. Both are gifts of our union with Christ, and within this double-blessing, justification is the root of sanctification and sanctification is the fruit of justification.

The whole Bible is the story of men and women trying to get back to God, to overcome that sin with sacrifices, good works, sermons, prophesy, witnessing, giving all kinds of things. It never worked.

When the Christian faith becomes defined by who we are and what we do and not by who Christ is and what he did for us, we miss the gospel - and we, ironically, become more disobedient.

Outside of the cross of Jesus Christ, there is no hope in this world. That cross and resurrection at the core of the Gospel is the only hope for humanity. Wherever you go, ask God for wisdom on how to get that Gospel in, even in the toughest situations of life.