Dieter F. Uchtdorf Quotes

I discovered who I was when I discovered God. You are just like your father God.

We are created in the image of our heavenly parents; we are God's spirit children. Therefore, we have a vast capacity for love - it is part of our spiritual heritage.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

The world sees in our conduct, in our behaviour, the proof that we are the real children of God.

As a child of God, your destiny, if you work hard enough and are faithful, is to become like Him. That means that there is nothing that is true that you cannot learn, because He knows all truth.

God comes first. Paradise is not cheap.

I have continued systematically to study the Book of Mormon and Bible to understand even more deeply what God expects of me and my family while on this earth.

Real Christianity is based upon God's word given to us through the scriptures, and His word is final.

Be assured that Christianity is something more than forms and creeds and ceremonies: there is life, and power, and reality, in our holy faith.

Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.

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 find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.

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.

I needed a concept of God that worked for me, and I wound up giving my life to Jesus Christ. I thought I was always going to have to wear skirts over my knees, not be able to listen to music, and have no personality. Fortunately, it's so completely opposite.

The lusts of this world leads us to fulfill our carnal need to be accepted, but as children of God we are already accepted by a Heavenly Father who is over and above all things.

I am very orthodox in thinking that Jesus acted in his life the way God would have acted if God had assumed human form.

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

I can love a person in this life only insofar as he tries to advance in the praise and service of God our Lord; for the man who loves anything for itself and not for the sake of God, does not love God with his whole heart.

If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting.

When you find your definitions in God, you find the very purpose for which you were created. Put your hand into God's hand, know His absolutes, demonstrate His love, present His truth, and the message of redemption and transformation will take hold.

The biggest impact I can have for what I want to do, the results I want to have with what God's given me, is to help as many people as possible get to heaven.

Spiritual identity means we are not what we do or what people say about us. And we are not what we have. We are the beloved daughters and sons of God.

I'm trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He's for them and has a purpose.

It came from God, and so is Christ true, and Christ is thy God, who is in heaven and awaits thee.

In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.