- Alma 12:31…To become as God –knowing good from evil.
- Marion G. Romney: Can we see how critical self-reliance becomes when looked upon as the prerequisite to service, when we also know service is what godhood is all about? Without self-reliance one cannot exercise these innate desires to serve. How can we give if there is nothing there? Food for the hungry cannot come from empty shelves. Money to assist the needy cannot come from an empty purse. Support and understanding cannot come from the emotionally starved. Teaching cannot come from the unlearned. And most important of all, spiritual guidance cannot come from the spiritually weak.
- “If men do not comprehend the character of God, they do not comprehend themselves.” Joseph Smith, Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith [1976], 343
- “As God now is, man may become!” Lorenzo Snow, Teachings of Lorenzo Snow [1984], 1
- “No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude, and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God…and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.” Orson F. Whitney, Ensign, Nov. 1987, 60; Faith Precedes the Miracle, 98
- “If men do not comprehend the character of God, they do not comprehend themselves.” Joseph Smith, Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith [1976], 343
- “As God now is, man may become!” Lorenzo Snow, Teachings of Lorenzo Snow [1984], 1
- “What is the worth of a human soul? …The worth of a human soul is its capacity to become as God.” Quoted by Thomas S. Monson, Ensign, Nov. 1994, 43
- (DC 18:10, 15) “What is the worth of a human soul? …The worth of a human soul is its capacity to become as God.” (Quoted by Thomas S. Monson, Ensign, Nov. 1994, 43)