Quick Quotes on Children of God
 

Our deepest fear, is not that we are inadequate.  Our deepest fear, is that we are powerful beyond measure.  It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves,  "who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous"?  Actually who are you NOT to be. You are a child of GOD.  Your playing small, does not serve the world.  There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born, to make manifest the glory of GOD that is within us.  It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone! As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.  As we are liberated from our own fears, our presence automatically liberates others.  -Nelson Mandela, 1994

"I want to tell you, each and every one of you, that you are well acquainted with God our Heavenly Father....for there is not a soul of you but what has lived in His house and dwelt with Him year after year; and yet you are seeking to become acquainted with Him, when the fact is, you have merely forgotten what you did know.  There is not a person here today but what is a son or a daughter of that Being." (Discourses from Brigham Young).

  "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 in your mortal ancestry, no matter what race or people you represent, the pedigree of your spirit can be written on a single line.  You are a child of God!"  -Elder Boyd K. Packer, "To Young Women and Men," Gen. Conf. April 1989 - Ensign, May1989,  p. 54
 

"When I was taught to pray, I learned that I was actually talking to God, in the name of Jesus Christ, through the power of the Holy Ghost...I had been told that I was a son of God, a child of God, and that he was interested in me, that he knew me and knew best what was right for me.  We were taught to pray at meals; we were taught to pray in the morning; we were taught to pray at night.  And we were taught that our Father in Heaven was the one to whom we were talking. I wonder how many of us know that we are spirit children of God; and when we are praying, whether it's over a meal, beginning or closing of a meeting, or at a baptism or confirmation, or the blessing of the bread and water in the sacrament, that we are actually talking to God.  He is there, he hears our prayers, and he blesses us." -President N. Eldon Tanner, "He Is There,"  Gen. Conf.  April 1981 -  Ensign, May 1981, p. 50

“Brothers and sisters, tremendous is our responsibility and great and marvelous is our opportunity as sons and daughters of God.  Every one of us is a child of God.  We know that.  Let us never forget that we are children of God at all times and in all circumstances and in all conditions and in all environments in which we might find ourselves and that there is never a time or a season or a circumstance when we can let down on our standards.” -President Gordon B. Hinckley (Smithfield-Logan, Utah, regional conference, 21 Apr. 1996)