Dieter F. Uchtdorf Quotes

In the life of the spirit there is no ending that is not a beginning.

There is always death at the end of your plan and life at the end of God's plan.

In eternity everything is just beginning.

For each of us, life is a journey. Heavenly Father designed it for us out of love. Each of us has unique experiences and characteristics, but our journey began in the same place before we were born into this world.

God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease.

A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence.

In this one book are the two most interesting personalities in the whole world - God and yourself. The Bible is the story of God and man, a love story in which you and I must write our own ending, our unfinished autobiography of the creature and the Creator.

Each day is a step we make towards eternity and we shall continue thus to step from day to day until we take the last step, which will bring us into the presence of God.

The Bible says that God has a reason for keeping us here; if He didn't, He would take us to Heaven far sooner.

Always remember that better days are ahead - if not in this life, in the next.

God gives us life and takes us away as He sees fit.

God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.

We are immortal until our work on earth is done.

Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day.

Sure there's different roads from this to Dungarvan -- some thinks one road pleasanter, and some think another; wouldn't it be mighty foolish to quarrel for this? -- and sure isn't it twice worse to try to interfere with people for choosing the road they like best to heaven?

If this is of God, it will endure …

I hope that I am out of the music business when I meet God.

If God exists, then we are spiritual beings, and we have souls, and we are noble inherently.

The truth is God created us to have relationship with us. He wants to love us and take care of us, and He wants us to love Him. That's where our walk with Christ has to start.

I am a big fan of work in any medium that can take on death - being dead, being a soul - in a new way.

We are eternal beings - spirit children of heavenly parents.

Religion is like a map. The route isn't important. It's the destination that matters.

Our longing for immortality is good! It was put there on purpose. We were meant - from the moment of our creation - to live forever.

Working on 'Beyond,' I try to give an explanation to death that's different from the explanation religions have to give. So I made up my own story around all this and how life and death and souls work.

Created in the awesome image of God, men and women know that life has a meaning beyond 'eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die.'