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- You are a child of God. He is the father of your spirit. Spiritually, you are of noble birth, the offspring of the King of Heaven. Fix that truth in your mind and hold to it. However many generations your mortal ancestry, no matter what race or people you represent, the pedigree of your spirit can be written on a single line.
--- Boyd K. Packer
- Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:
The soul that rises with us, our life's star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting,
And cometh from afar:
Not in entire forgetfulness,
And not in utter nakedness,
But trailing clouds of glory do we come
From God, who is our home:
Heaven lies about us in our infancy!
--- William Wordsworth
- To understand our Divine Nature is to know that as spirit offspring of our Heavenly Father, we have inherent divine attributes which can and should be developed.
All Human Beings - male and female - are created in the image of God. Each is a beloved spirit son or daughter of heavenly parents, and, as such, each has a divine nature and destiny.
---from The Family: A Proclamation to the World
- Can you imagine... the knowledge that you are a child of God, the Creator of the universe, our all-wise Heavenly Father who expects you to do something with your life and who will give help when help is sought for?
--- President Gordon B. Hinckley
Messages of the First Presidency 4:206
- And, behold, thou art my son; wherefore look, and I will show the workmanship of mine hands; but not all, for my works are without end, and also my words, for they never cease.
--- Moses 1:4
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- You of this chosen generation, this royal priesthood, this holy nation, you of the peculiar people, I challenge you to rise above the sordid elements of the world about you.
--- President Gordon B. Hinckley
- Our spirits ... were in the councils of the heavens before the foundations of the earth were laid. We were there. We sang together with the heavenly hosts for joy when the foundations of the earth were laid, and when the plan of our existence upon this earth and redemption were mapped out ... We were vitally concerned in the carrying out of these great plans and purposes, we understood them, and it was for our sakes they were decreed, and are to be consummated.
---Joseph F. Smith
Melchizedek Priesthood Study Guide, 1983, p.123
- Now the Lord had shown unto me, Abraham, the intelligences that were organized before the world was; and among all these there were many of the noble and great ones;
And God saw these souls that they were good, and he stood in the midst of them, and he said: These I will make my rulers; for he stood among those that were spirits, and he saw that they were good; and he said unto me: Abraham, thou are one of them; thou wast chosen before thou wast born.
--- Abr 2:22-23
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