68 LDS Quotes On The Nature of God | Page 7 of 8

“Our Eternal Father lives. He stands as the great God of the universe, ruling in majesty and power. And yet He is my Father, to whom I may go in prayer with the assurance that He will hear, listen, and answer.”

Gordon B. Hinckley

Topics: Heavenly Father, Nature of God

“If a man learns nothing more than to eat drink, and sleep, and does not comprehend any of the designs of god, the beast comprehends the same things. It eats, sleeps, and knows nothing more about God; yet it knows as much as we, unless we are able to comprehend by the inspiration of almighty God. If men do not comprehend the character of God, they do not comprehend themselves.”

Joseph Smith

Topics: Natural Man, Nature of God

“We should not assume, however, that just because something is unexplainable by us, it is unexplainable.”

Elder Neal A. Maxwell

Topics: Nature of God

One who really prays that this kingdom will come…[will make the effort to] keep himself in harmony with the order of the kingdom, to subject the flesh to the spirit, selfishness to altruism, and to learn to love the things that God loves. To make the will of God supreme on earth as it is in heaven is to be allied with God in the affairs of life.

James E. Talmage | Jesus The Christ - Page 157

Topics: Becoming like God, Nature of God

“Repentance, this willing submission to humiliation and a kind of death, is not something God demands of you before he will take you back and which he could let you off if he chose. It is simply a description of what going back to him is like. If you ask God to take you back without it, you are really asking him to let you back without going back.”

CS Lewis | Mere Christianity

Topics: Change, Justice, Nature of God, Repentance

“We would have been inexpressibly more miserable, if we had retained the memory of our former glory, and past actions.”

Terryl and Fiona Givens | The God Who Weeps

Topics: Mortality, Nature of God, Plan of Salvation

“Depend on it. God’s work done in God’s way will never lack God’s supply. He is too wise a God to frustrate His purposes for lack of funds, and He can just as easily supply them ahead of time as afterwards, and He much prefers doing so.”

James Hudson Taylor

Topics: Missionary Work & Preparation, Nature of God

“I feel most assuredly that our Father in heaven is far more interested in a soul—one of his children—than it is possible for an earthly father to be in one of his children. His love for us is greater than can be the love of an earthly parent for his offspring.”

Joseph Fielding Smith

Topics: Love, Nature of God, Parenting

“What you sincerely in your heart think of Christ will determine what you are, will largely determine what your acts will be. No person can study this divine personality, can accept his teachings without becoming conscious of an uplifting and refining influence within himself. In fact, every individual may experience the operation of the most potent force that can affect humanity.”

David O. McKay | Cherished Experiences from the Writings of President David O. McKay p. 24

Topics: Character, christ, Light of Christ, Nature of God

“Nine months of awkward explanations, the lingering scent of scandal – it seems that God arranged the most humiliating circumstances possible for his entrance, as if to avoid any charge of favoritism. I am impressed that when the Son of God became a human being he played by the rules, harsh rules; small towns do not treat kindly young boys who grow up with questionable paternity.”

Philip Yancey | The Jesus I Never Knew

Topics: Jesus Christ, Nature of God, Parenting