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