30+ LDS Quotes On Eternal Life | Page 2 of 4

“Everyone should learn something new everyday. You all have inquiring minds and are seeking truth in many fields. I sincerely hope your greatest search is in the realm of spiritual things, because it is there that we are able to gain salvation and make the progress that leads to eternal life in our Father’s kingdom. The most important knowledge in the world is gospel knowledge. It is knowledge of God and his law, of those things that men must do to work out their salvation with fear and trembling before the Lord.”

Joseph Fielding Smith | Ensign, May 1971, pp. 2-3

Topics: Being Spiritual & Spirituality, Education, Eternal Life, Knowledge, Maturity, Salvation, Truth

“When you … see our Father, you will see a being with whom you have long been acquainted, and He will receive you into His arms, and you will be ready to fall into His embrace and kiss Him. … You will be so glad and joyful. … When you are qualified and purified, … you can endure the glory of eternity.”

Brigham Young

Topics: Eternal Life, Heavenly Father, Nature of God

“Death is a mere comma, not an exclamation point!”

Elder Neal A. Maxwell

Topics: Death, Eternal Life, Physical

“Those who understand the eternal blessings which come from the temple know that no sacrifice is too great, no price too heavy, no struggle too difficult in order to receive those blessings.”

Thomas S. Monson | “The Holy Temple—a Beacon to the World,” Liahona and Ensign, May 2011, 91–92.

Topics: Eternal Life, Family, Marriage, Sacrifice, Temples

“An old proverb says, ‘The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second-best time is now.’

“There is something wonderful and hopeful about the word now. There is something empowering about the fact that if we choose to decide now, we can move forward at this very moment.

“Now is the best time to start becoming the person we eventually want to be—not only 20 years from now but also for all eternity.”

Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf | The Best Time to Plant a Tree

Topics: Attitude, Eternal Life, Goals

“Because of Christ there is hope smiling brightly before you, and you need not worry too much about sickness, death, poverty, or other afflictions. The Lord will take care of you. Your responsibility is to keep the commandments, feast upon the words of Christ, and stay in the path to your heavenly home.”

Julie B Beck | "There Is Hope Smiling Brightly before Us", Ensign, May 2003, 103

Topics: Commandments, Eternal Life, Hope

“Men are not born equal. They enter this life with the talents and capacities developed in preexistence…The talent of greatest worth was that of spirituality, for it enables us to hearken to the Holy Spirit and accept that gospel which prepares us for eternal life.”

Bruce R. McConkie | A New Witness for the Articles of Faith (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1985), 34

Topics: Eternal Life, Gifts of the Spirit, Intelligences

“The thirst for the infinite proves infinity.”

Houssaye | “Victor Hugo on Immortality,” Fifty Years, 324–25

Topics: Becoming like God, Eternal Life

Now understand, to choose life is to choose principles that will lead you to an eternal increase, and nothing short of them will produce life in the resurrection for the faithful. Those that choose death, make choice of the path which leads to the end of their organization. The one leads to endless increase and progression, the other to the destruction.

Brigham Young | Journal of Discourses, 1:352

Topics: Eternal Life, Hell, Resurrection

“What a glorious thing it is that we believe and receive the fulness of the gospel as it is preached now and can be baptized for all of our dead friends. . . . Oh, mother, if we are so happy as to have a part in the first resurrection, we shall have our children just as we laid them down in their graves.”

Sally Carlisle Randall | Sally Carlisle Randall to Betty Carlisle, Nauvoo, April 21, 1844, Church Archives.

Topics: Baptisms for the Dead, Eternal Life, Resurrection, Temples