• Alma 11:43-44…At resurrection, the spirit and body are reunited in its perfect form.
  • Ecc. 7: 20…No one is perfect
  • Moroni 10: 32…How to be perfect in Christ
  • Alma 15: 18…Perfect the Saints
  • How to be Perfect on this Earth (Pres. Danillo Paredes. Colon Stake, Oct. 29, 1995)
    • James 3: 2…Don’t offend in word
    • Alma 48: 11-12…Perfect understanding
    • D&C 67: 13…Continue with patience
    • D&C 124: 143…Have a calling
    • Moroni 10: 32…Love God with all of our soul
  • Doctrine and Covenants 128:15… And now, my dearly beloved brethren and sisters, let me assure you that these are principles in relation to the dead and the living that cannot be lightly passed over, as pertaining to our salvation. For their salvation is necessary and essential to our salvation, as Paul says concerning the fathers—that they without us cannot be made perfect—neither can we without our dead be made perfect.
  • “As man now is, God once was: As God now is, man may be.” Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Lorenzo Snow, Chapter 5: The Grand Destiny of the Faithful
  • “It is a wonderful pleasure to speak upon the great things that God proposes to bestow upon His sons and daughters, and that we shall attain to if we are faithful. …”  Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Lorenzo Snow, Chapter 5: The Grand Destiny of the Faithful
  • How to be Perfect on this Earth (Pres. Danillo Paredes. Colon Stake, Oct. 29, 1995)
  • …Don’t offend in word
  • 2. …Perfect understanding
  • 3. …Continue with patience
  • 4. …Have a calling
  • 5….Love God with all of our soul
  • () “If you’re seeing more of your weaknesses, that just might mean you’re moving nearer to God, not farther away.” (Bruce C. Hafen, Ensign, May 2004, 97)
  • () “If we desire ‘all that [the] Father hath,’ God asks all that we have. To qualify for such exquisite treasure, in whatever way is ours, we must give the way Christ gave – every drop He had.” (Bruce C. Hafen, Ensign, May 2004, 98)
  • “It is natural to assume that when we don’t appear to be doing ‘excellently’ the perfection process is not working. But the exact opposite may be true. Our moments of greatest stress and difficulty are often the times when the refiner’s fire is doing its most purifying work….I am addressing primarily a need for perspective. I do not mean to diminish the value of serious commitments to personal achievement and responsibility…But the striving must be to find out God and to accept fully the experiences he knows will enlarge our souls. The trouble with modern pursuits of excellence is that they can become a striving to please other people, or at least to impress them or to seek their approval. A desire for such approval is not all bad, especially among Church members, woho generally reserve their approval for accomplishments having positive value. But other people are not finally our judge, and making too much of either the affirmative or the adverse judgement of others can actually undermine our relationship with God and our development of sound values” (Broken Heart, 97-99
  • D&C 128:5… And now, my dearly beloved brethren and sisters, let me assure you that these are principles in relation to the dead and the living that cannot be lightly passed over, as pertaining to our salvation. For their salvation is necessary and essential to our salvation, as Paul says concerning the fathers—that they without us cannot be made perfect—neither can we without our dead be made perfect.
  • “As man now is, God once was: As God now is, man may be.” Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Lorenzo Snow, Chapter 5: The Grand Destiny of the Faithful
  • “It is a wonderful pleasure to speak upon the great things that God proposes to bestow upon His sons and daughters, and that we shall attain to if we are faithful. …” Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Lorenzo Snow, Chapter 5: The Grand Destiny of the Faithful
  • “Yet it’s clear from Gallup’s research that each person has greater potential for success in specific areas, and the key to human development is building on who you already are.” StrengthsFinder 2.0 (Tom Rath) Kindle Location 201-2
  • “Elder Robert D. Hales said, “On occasion individuals can have [experiences like Saul’s], but for the most part, conversion happens over a period of time as study, prayer, experience, and faith help us to grow in our testimony and conversion” Ensign, May 1997, 80
  • “How much do you know about your parents’ childhoods, especially before the age of ten? If it’s still possible for you to find out, ask them. If you’re able to find out about your parents’ childhoods, you will more easily understand why they did what they did. Understanding will bring you compassion. If you don’t know and can’t find out, try to imagine what it must have been like for them. What kind of childhood would create an adult like that? You need this knowledge for your own freedom. You can’t free yourself until you free them. You can’t forgive yourself until you forgive them. If you demand perfection from them, you will demand perfection from yourself, and you will be miserable all your life.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 29
  • “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)
  • “He rejoices in our genuine goodness and achievement, but any assessment of where we stand in relation to Him tells us that we do not stand at all! We kneel!” (Neal A. Maxwell, Ensign, Jun. 1984, 73)
  • “Our task is to become our best selves. One of God’s greatest gifts to us is the joy of trying again, for no failure ever need be final.” (Thomas S. Monson, Ensign, May 1987, 68)
  •  “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)
  • “In the foreword to his adaptation of Lao-tzu’s Tao TeChing, Stephen Mitchell compares non-action to athletic performance. “A good athlete can enter a state of body-awareness in which the right stroke or the right movement happens by itself, effortlessly, without any interference of the conscious will,” he writes. “This is the paradigm for non-action: the purest and most effective form of action. The game plays the game; the poem writes the poem; we can’t tell the dancer from the dance.” Or as Lao-tzu proclaims in Mitchell’s work: Less and less do you need to force things, until finally you arrive at non-action. When nothing is done, nothing is left undone.” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success. Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty. Page 238
  • “Migraine headaches are created by people who want to be perfect and who create a lot of pressure on themselves. A lot of suppressed anger is involved.”  You Can Heal Your Life(Louise Hay) Page 125
  • Matthew 5:48 … Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
  • “… I believe the Lord meant just what He said, that we should be perfect, as our Father in heaven is perfect. That will not come all at once, but line upon line and precept upon precept, example upon example, and even then not as long as we live in this mortal life, for we will have to go even beyond the grave before we reach that perfection and shall be like God.”   Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph Fielding Smith, (2013), 228–39
  • D&C 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)
  • “The smile on my face doesn’t mean my life is perfect. It means I appreciate what I have and what I have been blessed with. I choose to be happy.” Charlie Brown
  • “Many of you may have severe trials, that your faith may become more perfect, your confidence be increased, your knowledge of the powers of heaven be augmented; and this before your redemption takes place. If a stormy cloud sweep over the horizon, if the cup of bitter suffering be offered, and you compelled to partake; Satan let loose to go among you, with all his seductive powers of deceivings and cunning craftiness; the strong relentless arm of persecution lifted against you then, in that hour, lift up your heads and rejoice that you are accounted worthy to suffer thus with Jesus, the Saints, and holy prophets; and know that the period of your redemption has approached.” Manual,Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Lorenzo Snow,  Chapter 7, Faithfulness in Time of Trial from the Shadows into the Glorious Sunshine
  • “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect [Matthew 5:48.]. I believe the Lord meant just what He said, that we should be perfect, as our Father in heaven is perfect. That will not come all at once, but line upon line and precept upon precept, example upon example, and even then not as long as we live in this mortal life, for we will have to go even beyond the grave before we reach that perfection and shall be like God.” Manual, Teachings, Chapter 18 Living by Every Word That Proceeds from the Mouth of God
  • December 17, 1995 – Sunday – Quito Ecuador… “I gave a talk on the Sacrament.  I spoke on the advice that a Sister gave us in a Testimony Meeting.  She told us to live life one week at a time.  That between each Sacrament we live our life to the fullest and try and get better.  And in each Sacrament Meeting, we ask forgiveness of all we’ve done wrong in the last week and we put goals.  That way we live the perfection week by week, and the whole lifetime doesn’t seem so hard.” – Clinton Brown Missionary Journal