60+ LDS Quotes On Plan of Salvation | Page 4 of 7

“Another great advantage of joy, contrasted with pleasure, is that joy overrides routine, which, otherwise, could make us bored. We don’t know, for instance, how many times Heavenly Father has been through the plan of salvation before with other of His children elsewhere before our particular sequence on this planet. God even hints at the repetitiveness of His redemption when He says, “[My] course is one eternal round” (see 1 Nephi 10:19; Alma 7:20; D&C 3:2). Yet God is never bored by what might seem mere routine. Why? Because of His perfect love for His children! What He calls “my work and my glory” brings abundant and pure joy! (see Moses 1:39).”

Elder Neal A. Maxwell | “Brim with Joy” (Alma 26:11), BYU Devotional, January 23, 1996

Topics: Becoming like God, Happiness, Joy, Plan of Salvation

Elder Jeffery R. Holland of the LDS church

God doesn’t care nearly as much about where you have been as He does about where you are and, with His help, where you are willing to go.

Elder Jeffrey R. Holland | Created for Greater Things

Topics: Becoming like God, Change, Decisions, Discipleship, Forgiveness, Goals, Growth, Heavenly Father, Inspirational Quotes, Mercy, Perfection, Plan of Salvation, Potential, Repentance, Self-mastery, Short Quotes

“Happiness is the purpose and design of existence.”

David O. McKay | Pathways to Happiness

Topics: Happiness, Joy, Plan of Salvation, Purpose

“No man will be kept in hell longer than is necessary to bring him to a fitness for something better. When he reaches that stage the prison doors will open and there will be rejoicing among the hosts who welcome him into a better state.”

James E. Talmage

Topics: Being Spiritual & Spirituality, Death, Final Judgement, Hell, Plan of Salvation

“Our Heavenly Father is more liberal in His views, and boundless in His mercies and blessings, than we are ready to believe or receive.”

Joseph Smith | History, 1838–1856, volume D-1

Topics: Blessings, Inspirational Quotes, Mercy, Motivational Quotes, Nature of God, Plan of Salvation

“Happiness is the object and design of our existence; and will be the end thereof, if we pursue the path that leads to it; and this path is virtue, uprightness, faithfulness, holiness, and keeping all the commandments of God.”

Joseph Smith

Topics: Commandments, Happiness, Plan of Salvation, Purpose

“Let us be no more tossed to and fro by every worldly wind and doctrine of man (see Ephesians 4:14). We declare to the world that the heavens are open and the truth of God’s eternal plan has again been made known to mankind. We live in the dispensation of the fulness of times. We live in a day when we have the witness through the scriptures of the great plan the Lord has given to His children from the beginning of time down to this present and last dispensation. The evidence is well documented; we are not left alone to wander through mortality without knowing of the master plan which the Lord has designed for His children. He has bound Himself by solemn covenant to give us the blessings of heaven according to our obedience to His law. Oh, remember, remember that these things are true, for the Lord God has revealed these eternal truths unto us.”

L. Tom Perry | "The Plan of Salvation," Ensign, Nov. 2006

Topics: Plan of Salvation

“A problem related to perceptions of Mormonism’s monopoly on truth is the impression that Mormons claim a monopoly on salvation. It grows increasingly difficult to imagine that a body of a few million, in a world of seven billion, can really be God’s only chosen people and heirs of salvation. That is because they aren’t. One of the most unfortunate misperceptions about Mormonism is in this tragic irony: Joseph Smith’s view is one of the most generous, liberal and universalist conceptions of salvation in all Christendom.”

Terryl and Fiona Givens

Topics: Joseph Smith, Mormon Culture, Plan of Salvation, Salvation, Truth

I will take the liberty of saying to every man and woman who wishes to obtain salvation through him (the Savior) that looking to him, only, is not enough: they must have faith in his name, character and atonement; and they must have faith in his father and in the plan of salvation devised and wrought out by the Father and the Son. What will this faith lead to? It will lead to obedience to the requirements of the Gospel; and the few words that I may deliver to my brethren and sisters and friends this afternoon will be with the direct view of leading them to God.

Brigham Young | Journal of Discourses, Vol.13, p. 56, from talk given July 18, 1869

Topics: Atonement, Faith, Plan of Salvation, Salvation

“If you understand the great plan of happiness and follow it, what goes on in the world will not determine your happiness.”

Boyd K. Packer | "The Father and the Family," Ensign, May 1994

Topics: Plan of Salvation, Secularism (Worldliness)