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"Exaltation is eternal life, the kind of life that God lives.... We can become Gods like our Heavenly Father....Those who live the commandments of the Lord and receive eternal life (exaltation) in the celestial kingdom will become gods....They will have their righteous family members with them and will be able to have spirit children also. These spirit children will have the same relationship to them as we do to our Heavenly Father. They will be an eternal family."
Source: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Gospel Principles, 1986, 289-290.
Some believe our eternal destiny is to sit upon clouds, thrum harps and sing forever. What an occupation! What a monotony! No matter how sweet this music might be it would become very wearisome if extended long. But such is not our destiny. Our mission hereafter is to perpetuate and continue the work of our Father and our God, to perpetuate our species and to create worlds from the elements by which we are surrounded.
Go out at night and behold the starry firmament. The millions of shining orbs we see are the work of God -- worlds created and peopled by the Almighty. Such works are for us to do.
Source: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Gospel Truth, 110.
What is there more helpless, weak, puny, insignificant, it may be said, in many respects, than a human being when it is born into the world. Yet that being, if nurtured properly, if trained as it should be, has before it a career of never-ending glory. That little puling infant may become, in the eternity of our God, a god, to sway power and dominion in the eternal worlds, to be the father of unnumbered millions. Yet at its birth who would anticipate such a future for it.
Source: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Gospel Truth, 131.