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  1. God’s Intent Is to Bring You Home

    Patrick Kearon April 2024 Sunday Morning Session

    Open paragraph (3)

    What do God’s messengers, His prophets, call this plan in Restoration scripture?

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  2. Do You Know Why I as a Christian Believe in Christ?

    Ahmad S. Corbitt April 2023 Sunday Afternoon Session

    Open paragraph (2)

    I informed her that this was an effect of the law of justice.

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  3. Ensuring a Righteous Judgment

    James R. Rasband April 2020 Saturday Morning Session

    Open paragraph (3)

    A vital and peace-giving contribution of the Book of Mormon to our understanding of the Savior’s Atonement is its teaching that Christ’s merciful sacrifice fulfills all the demands of justice.

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  4. Giving Our Spirits Control over Our Bodies

    M. Russell Ballard October 2019 Sunday Afternoon Session

    Open paragraph (1)

    During this past year, I have pondered more intently than ever before about our Heavenly Father’s plan.

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  5. The Father

    Brian K. Ashton October 2018 Sunday Afternoon Session

    Open paragraph (1)

    The scriptures call this the plan of salvation.

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  6. The Book of Mormon: What Would Your Life Be Like without It?

    Russell M. Nelson October 2017 Saturday Afternoon Session

    Open paragraph (1)

    This last comment made me reflect on my life decades ago as a young surgical resident.

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  7. Our Father’s Glorious Plan

    Weatherford T. Clayton April 2017 Saturday Morning Session

    Open paragraph (2)

    Because Heavenly Father loves us, He wants us to have the greatest gift He can give, the gift of eternal life.

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  8. The Master Healer

    Carole M. Stephens October 2016 General Women’s Session

    Open paragraph (1)

    As we increase our understanding of the doctrine of Christ, we soon discover that we are developing a deeper understanding of “the great plan of happiness.” We also recognize that our Savior, Jesus Christ, is at the very heart of the plan.

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  9. Valiant in the Testimony of Jesus

    Quentin L. Cook October 2016 Saturday Afternoon Session

    Open paragraph (3)

    Alma 42 contains some of the most magnificent doctrine on the Atonement in all scripture.

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  10. Why Marriage, Why Family

    D. Todd Christofferson April 2015 Saturday Afternoon Session

    Open paragraph (4)

    Prophets have revealed that we first existed as intelligences and that we were given form, or spirit bodies, by God, thus becoming His spirit children—sons and daughters of heavenly parents.

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  11. The Book

    Allan F. Packer October 2014 Sunday Afternoon Session

    Open paragraph (1)

    The family is the center of the plan of salvation and perhaps why it is also called the “great plan of happiness.” President Boyd K.

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  12. “I Have Given You an Example”

    Richard G. Scott April 2014 Saturday Afternoon Session

    Open paragraph (1)

    There is no doctrine more fundamental to our work than the Atonement of Jesus Christ.

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  13. Decisions for Eternity

    Russell M. Nelson October 2013 Sunday Afternoon Session

    Open paragraph (1)

    The aging process is also a gift from God, as is death.

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  14. Catch the Wave

    Russell M. Nelson April 2013 Saturday Afternoon Session

    Open paragraph (1)

    In addition, the Restoration added knowledge that Saints had anciently.

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  15. Counsel to Youth

    Boyd K. Packer October 2011 Saturday Morning Session

    Open paragraph (1)

    The gospel plan is “the great plan of happiness.” The family is the center of that plan.

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  16. Guided by the Holy Spirit

    Boyd K. Packer April 2011 Saturday Afternoon Session

    Open paragraph (1)

    “The great plan of happiness” centers on family life.

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  17. Establishing a Christ-Centered Home

    Richard J. Maynes April 2011 Saturday Afternoon Session

    Open paragraph (1)

    The ancient prophet Alma calls God’s plan for His children “the great plan of happiness.” The First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, whom we sustain as prophets, seers, and revelators, have offered us this inspired counsel with regard to happiness and family life: “The family is ordained of God.

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  18. Cleansing the Inner Vessel

    Boyd K. Packer October 2010 Sunday Morning Session

    Open paragraph (2)

    In our day the dreadful influence of pornography is like unto a plague sweeping across the world, infecting one here and one there, relentlessly trying to invade every home, most frequently through the husband and father.

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  19. Love and Law

    Dallin H. Oaks October 2009 Saturday Afternoon Session

    Open paragraph (1)

    This great principle helps us understand the why of many things, like justice and mercy balanced by the Atonement.

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  20. Counsel to Young Men

    Boyd K. Packer April 2009 Priesthood Session

    Open paragraph (1)

    At noon today four young men, all grandsons, came to visit us.

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  21. Celestial Marriage

    Russell M. Nelson October 2008 Sunday Afternoon Session

    Open paragraph (1)

    My beloved brethren and sisters, I am deeply grateful for each of you.

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  22. Salvation and Exaltation

    Russell M. Nelson April 2008 Saturday Morning Session

    Open paragraph (1)

    Thanks to God’s great plan of happiness, families can be together forever—as exalted beings.

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  23. Restoring Faith in the Family

    Kenneth Johnson April 2008 Saturday Morning Session

    Open paragraph (1)

    With knowledge of the “great plan of happiness,” we have the opportunity and also the responsibility to help restore faith in the family.

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  24. The Great Plan of Happiness

    Earl C. Tingey April 2006 Sunday Morning Session

    Open paragraph (1)

    Alma refers to the Atonement as “the great plan of happiness.” I shall use that phrase to describe the beautiful doctrine we know as the Atonement of Jesus Christ.

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  25. Now Is the Time to Prepare

    Russell M. Nelson April 2005 Saturday Morning Session

    Open paragraph (1)

    Death is a necessary component of our eternal existence.

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  26. The Atonement: All for All

    Bruce C. Hafen April 2004 Sunday Afternoon Session

    Open paragraph (1)

    What possible pearl could be worth such a price—for Him and for us?

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  27. “The Standard of Truth Has Been Erected”

    Boyd K. Packer October 2003 Saturday Afternoon Session

    Open paragraph (1)

    We learned about the plan of redemption—“the great plan of happiness.” We came to earth to be tested and to gain experience, with a promise that “through the Atonement of Christ, all mankind may be saved, by obedience to the laws and ordinances of the Gospel.”

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  28. Our Father’s Plan

    Christoffel Golden Jr. October 2001 Saturday Afternoon Session

    Open paragraph (1)

    Likewise, latter-day revelation reveals that our Heavenly Father ordained a great plan of happiness for all of His spirit children who had kept their first estate.

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  29. “The Touch of the Master’s Hand”

    Boyd K. Packer April 2001 Saturday Afternoon Session

    Open paragraph (1)

    The gospel plan is the “great plan of happiness.” It is contrary to the nature of God and contrary to the very nature of man to find happiness in sin.

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  30. Personal Preparation for Temple Blessings

    Russell M. Nelson April 2001 Saturday Afternoon Session

    Open paragraph (2)

    I have learned that temple blessings are most meaningful when death takes a loved one away from the family circle.

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  31. The Creation

    Russell M. Nelson April 2000 Sunday Afternoon Session

    Open paragraph (3)

    The entire Creation was planned by God.

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  32. The Atonement

    Russell M. Nelson October 1996 Saturday Afternoon Session

    Open paragraph (3)

    Adam and Eve, as mortal beings, were instructed to “worship the Lord their God, and … offer the firstlings of their flocks, for an offering unto the Lord.” They were further instructed that “the life of the flesh is in the blood: … for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.” Probation, procreation, and aging were all components of—and physical death was essential to—God’s “great plan of happiness.”

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  33. Christians in Belief and Action

    Joseph B. Wirthlin October 1996 Sunday Afternoon Session

    Open paragraph (3)

    Our faith in the Lord moves us to the second principle of the gospel: repentance.

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  34. The Joy of Living the Great Plan of Happiness

    Richard G. Scott October 1996 Sunday Afternoon Session

    Open paragraph (5)

    The scriptures record, “And I, God, created man … ; male and female created I them.” This was done spiritually in your premortal existence when you lived in the presence of your Father in Heaven.

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  35. For Time and All Eternity

    Boyd K. Packer October 1993 Saturday Afternoon Session

    Open paragraph (5)

    In the great council in heaven, God’s plan was presented: the plan of salvation, the plan of redemption, the great plan of happiness.

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  36. Constancy amid Change

    Russell M. Nelson October 1993 Saturday Afternoon Session

    Open paragraph (3)

    I speak now of category two—unchanging plans.

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