Repentance & Grace

"Only repentance leads to the sunlit uplands of a better life."

"Repentance is a divine gift 🎁, and there should be a smile on our faces when we speak of it. " 😊

"Repentance exists only as an option because of the Atonement of Jesus Christ."

"Repentance means striving to change to change.  It would mock the Savior's suffering in the Garden of Gethsemane and on the cross for us to expect tha He should transform us into angelic beings with no real effort on our part.  Rather we seek His grace to compliment and reward our most diligent efforts (see 2 Nephi 25:23)”

"Perhaps as much as praying for mercy, we should pray for time and opportunity to work and strive and overcome.  Surely The Lord smiles upon one who desires to come to judgment worthily, who resolutely labored day by day to replace weakness with strength.  Real repentance, real change may require repeated attempts. But there is something refining and holy in such striving."

Elder christofferson

GC 11/11

After the Manner of Happiness

"It was only after Nephi had completed the temple in the wilderness that he stated, "And we lived after the manner of happiness."  The 'manner of happiness' is found in the temple.  It is covenant keeping."

Referring to 2 nephi 5:27

Sis. Elaine Dalton GC 11/11

PRAYER

"It is as tragic to think we are too sinful to pray as it is for a very sick person to believe he is too sick to go to the doctor!"

"I am led to believe that Heavenly Father loves us so much that the things that arr important to us become important to Him, just because He loves us."

Elser J. Dean Cornish
GC 11/11

Kept Covenants

"One of the Lords purposes in organizing the Relief Society was to prepare His daughters for the greater blessings of the priesthood found in the ordinances and covenants of the temple."

"When people sift through our possessions after we have died, will they find evidence that we have kept our covenants?"

Barbara Thompson
RS Broadcast 2011