King Follett Sermon quote: 'you have got to learn how to be gods yourselves... from grace to grace, from exaltation to exaltation' — eternal life is progressive deification.

Smith says: 'here then is eternal life — to know the only wise and true God and you have got to learn how to be gods yourselves... by going from one small degree to another... from grace to grace, from exaltation to exaltation, until you attain the resurrection of the dead, and are able to dwell in everlasting burnings.' This is not passive receipt of grace but an active, progressive, earned achievement.