God doesn’t care nearly as much about where you have been as He does about where you are and, with His help, where you are willing to go.

Elder Jeffrey R. Holland | The Best Is Yet to Be, Ensign, January 2010

Topics: Becoming like God, Change, Decisions, Discipleship, Forgiveness, Goals, Growth, Heavenly Father, Inspirational Quotes, Mercy, Perfection, Plan of Salvation, Potential, Repentance, Self-mastery, Short Quotes

Your Father in Heaven knows your name and knows your circumstance. He hears your prayers. He knows your hopes and dreams, including your fears and frustrations. And He knows what you can become through faith in Him.

Elder Jeffrey R. Holland | To Young Women, October 2005 General Conference

Topics: Faith, Heavenly Father, Hope, Prayer, Self-mastery, Trials

No matter how difficult the trail, and regardless of how heavy our load, we can take comfort in knowing that others before us have borne life’s most grievous trials and tragedies by looking to heaven for peace, comfort, and hopeful assurance. We can know as they knew that God is our Father, that He cares about us individually and collectively, and that as long as we continue to exercise our faith and trust in Him there is nothing to fear in the journey.

Elder M. Russell Ballard | “You Have Nothing to Fear from the Journey,” Ensign, May 1997, p. 59

Topics: Adversity, Heavenly Father, Peace, Trials

“When you … see our Father, you will see a being with whom you have long been acquainted, and He will receive you into His arms, and you will be ready to fall into His embrace and kiss Him. … You will be so glad and joyful. … When you are qualified and purified, … you can endure the glory of eternity.”

Brigham Young

Topics: Eternal Life, Heavenly Father, Nature of God

“God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted man, and sits enthroned in yonder heavens! That is the great secret. . . . It is the first principle of the Gospel to know for a certainty the Character of God, and to know that we may converse with him as one man converse with another, and that he was once a man like us; yea, that God himself, the Father of us all, dwelt on an earth, the same as Jesus Christ himself did.”

Joseph Smith | Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith

Topics: Becoming like God, Heavenly Father, Potential

“There never was a God, and there never will be in all eternities, except they are made of these two component parts; a man and a woman; the male and the female.”

Erastus Snow | "The Christ Who Heals"

Topics: Heavenly Father, Heavenly Mother

“God is God not just because he is the law giver, but because he is the law obeyer.”

Brad Wilcox | The Continuous Atonement

Topics: Heavenly Father, Nature of God

“Is it reasonable to suppose that something immortal just suddenly began in time?”

Beatrand Russell

Topics: Creation, Heavenly Father, Science

“The things of God are of deep import; and time, and experience, and careful and ponderous and solemn thoughts can only find them out. . . . How much more dignified and noble are the thoughts of God, than the vain imaginations of the human heart!”

Joseph Smith | Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, 137.

Topics: Heavenly Father, Nature of God

“Good comes from God; evil comes from the devil. They are not, however, equal forces that are fighting each other in the universe. At the head of all that is good is the Christ—He who is the Only Begotten of the Father, who created our world and numerous others. … The power of the Savior and the power of the devil are not truly comparable. On this planet, however, evil has been allowed a position of influence to give us the chance to choose between good and evil.”

Elder Neil L. Andersen | “Beware of the Evil behind the Smiling Eyes”

Topics: Heavenly Father, Satan

“Our Heavenly Father knows us and our circumstances and even what faces us in the future. . . . He has perfect understanding of the feelings, the suffering, the trials, and the needs of every individual.”

Elder Henry B. Eyring

Topics: Heavenly Father

He [Heavenly Father] is our perfect Father. He loves us beyond our capacity to understand. He knows what is best for us. He sees the end from the beginning. He wants us to act to gain needed experience: When He answers yes, it is to give us confidence. When He answers no, it is to prevent error. When He withholds an answer, it is to have us grow through faith in Him, obedience to His commandments, and a willingness to act on truth.

Richard G. Scott | “Learning to Recognize Answers to Prayer,” Ensign, November 1989, p. 30

Topics: Heavenly Father, Nature of God, Obedience

“It is about failing to see the family structure as a divine mode of eternal association that is at the very heart of heaven itself. In sum, the ‘Restoration’ is not about correcting particular doctrines or practices as much as it is about restoring their cosmic context.”

Terryl and Fiona Givens | "The Christ Who Heals"

Topics: Family, Heavenly Father, Heavenly Mother, Restoration

Whatever God requires is right, no matter what it is, although we may not see the reason there of until all of the events transpire.

Joseph Smith | History, 1838–1856, volume D-1 [1 August 1842–1 July 1843]

Topics: Faith, Heavenly Father

“The purposes of our God are great, His love unfathomable, His wisdom infinite, and His power unlimited; therefore, the Saints have cause to rejoice and be glad.”

Joseph Smith

Topics: Heavenly Father, Nature of God, Purpose

“Our Eternal Father lives. He stands as the great God of the universe, ruling in majesty and power. And yet He is my Father, to whom I may go in prayer with the assurance that He will hear, listen, and answer.”

Gordon B. Hinckley

Topics: Heavenly Father, Nature of God

“Let us never forget to pray. God lives. He is near. He is real. He is not only aware of us but cares for us. He is our Father. He is accessible to all who will seek Him.”

Gordon B. Hinckley | Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes

Topics: Heavenly Father, Prayer