There's Hope for Me After All

I love this quote by Elder Bruce R. McConkie, who was one of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in our church.

"As members of the Church, if we chart a course leading to eternal life...and are going in the right direction...and, step by step and phase by phase, are perfecting our souls by overcoming the world, then it is absolutely guaranteed----there is no question whatever about it----we shall gain eternal life....If we chart a course and follow it to the best of our ability in this life, then when we go out of this life we'll continue in exactly that same course."

("Jesus Christ and Him Crucified," in 1976 Devotional Speeches of the Year [1977], 400-401) as quoted in the Book of Mormon seminary teacher's manual p. 140.