Elder George Q. Cannon on our Relationship to God

"God in His infinite mercy has revealed to us a great truth.  It is a
truth that, when understood by us, gives a new light to our existence and
inspires us with the most exalted hopes.  That truth is that God is our
Father, and we are His children.  What a tender relationship!  What a
feeling of nearness it creates within us!  What?  God my Father?  Am I
indeed His son?  Am I indeed His daughter?  Do I belong to the family of
God?  Is this literally true?  The answer is, 'Yes.'  God has revealed it,
that we are literally His children, His offspring, that we are just as
much His children as our offspring are our children, that He begot us, and
that we existed with Him in the family relationship as His children.

"What an immensity of vision is given to us in this truth!  What a field
for reflection!  And how our hearts should be inspired with great hopes
and anticipations to think that the Being under whose direction this earth
was organized, who governs the planets and controls the universe, who
causes the rotation of the seasons and makes this earth so beautiful and
such a delightful place of habitation, is our Father and that we are His
children, descended from Him!  What illimitable hopes the knowledge of
this inspires us with!

"Now, this is the truth.  We humble people, we who feel ourselves
sometimes so worthless, so good-for-nothing, we are not so worthless as we
think.  There is not one of us but what God's love has been expended upon.
There is not one of us that He has not cared for and caressed.  There is
not one of us that He has not desired to save and that He has not devised
means to save.  There is not one of us that He has not given His angels
charge concerning.  We may be insignificant and contemptible in our own
eyes and in the eyes of others, but the truth remains that we are the
children of God and that He has actually given His angels - invisible
beings of power and might - charge concerning us, and they watch over us
and have us in their keeping.

(George Q. Cannon, _Gospel Truth_, 1:1-2)