Dieter F. Uchtdorf Quotes

This is a paradox of man: compared to God, man is nothing; yet we are everything to God.

Small numbers make no difference to God. There is nothing small if God is in it.

I believe in something that maybe can be defined as the God in one's heart, in the heart of every human being, but not in a God who sits on high looking down on us and taking care of us and whom we bother with things trivial and weighty so that he will be good to us and arrange things for us here.

I am not like a pebble on the beach - a grain of sand on the seashore or just one of millions of human beings past, present and future. No, I am a unique human being loved by God as if I were an only child - the only fruit of his creative powers.

God made beauty so we'd know how He felt about us.

Every day you and I walk through God's shop. Every day we brush up against objects of incalculable worth to Him. People. Every one of them carries a price tag, if only we could see it.

The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life-if indeed we can conceive of it.

Your secret yearnings and tearful pleadings will touch the heart of both the Father and the Son.

God sees you not only as a mortal being on a small planet who lives for a brief season—He sees you as His child. He sees you as the being you are capable and designed to become. He wants you to know that you matter to Him.

If I'm going to be in the right relationship with God, I should treat the things he has made in the same way he treats them.

You have never looked in the eyes of someone who does not matter to God.

God loves us more than a father, mother, friend, or any else could love, and even more than we are able to love ourselves.

Flowers are like visible messages from God.

Remember. The way you make love is the way God will be with you.

Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed. Each of us is loved. Each of us is necessary.

You cannot love a fellow creature fully till you love God.

Once we deeply trust that we ourselves are precious in God's eyes, we are able to recognize the preciousness of others and their unique places in God's heart.

There's not a person on earth that God doesn't love, but God wants us to learn to love him back.

Trust the Lord. He is the good shepherd. He knows His sheep. And His sheep know His voice.

Every person needs to feel significant. We want our lives to count. We yearn to believe that in some way we are important and that hunger for significance-a drive as intense as our need for oxygen-doesn't come from pride or ego. It comes from God because he wants each of us to understand how important we are. ... We must seek our roots, our origin, and our destiny so that we can know our present value. ..... ...We can help each other realize that we are persons of significance being made in the image of God.

I'm spiritual! You know what spiritual means! Me and God has a good relationship. I'm in tune with the universe, the sun, moon, and stars. I'm in tune with the jinns that are all around us.

Existence cares. When I say God cares I mean that existence cares for you, it is not indifferent. Let this be the foundation of your sannyas and then the temple can be raised very easily. It is easy to raise the temple once the foundation is rightly put. This is the foundation stone: remember that existence loves you, cares about you, is concerned about you; that you are not alienated, that you are not a stranger, that you are part of this great symphony, this orchestra, this celebration that goes on and on and knows no ending.

... our little things are all big to God's love; our big things are all small to His power.

I have a very personal relationship with Jesus Christ. It doesn't depend on the fact that he can walk on water.

I will not leave you, I cannot leave you, for you are My creation and My product, My daughter and My son, My purpose and My... Self. Call on Me, therefore, wherever and whenever you are separate from the peace that I am. I will be there. With Truth. And Light. And Love.