Day 154- Atonement Insights

"I repeat, save for the exception of the very few who defect to perdition, there is no habit, no addiction, no rebellion, no transgression, no apostasy, no crime exempted from the promise of complete forgiveness. That is the promise of the atonement of Christ" (Boyd K. Packer, Ensign, Nov. 1995, p. 20).

Day 153- Atonement Insights

"The reality of our dependence upon Jesus Christ for the attainment of our goals of immortality and eternal life should dominate every teaching and every testimony and every action and every soul touched by the light of the restored gospel. If we teach every other subject and principle with perfection and fall short of this one, we have failed our most important mission."
 ~ Dallin H. Oaks, "Sins, Crimes, and Atonement" [address to religious educators, 7 Feb 1992]


I know when I grasp the atonement and come unto Christ through repentance and obedience, Jesus Christ can do much more with my life than I can do on my own.

Day 152- Atonement Insight

"Just as a man does not really desire food until he is hungry, so he does not desire the salvation of Christ until he knows why he needs Christ.... No one adequately and properly knows why he needs Christ until he understands and accepts the doctrine of the Fall and its effect upon all mankind. And no other book in the world explains this vital doctrine nearly as well as the Book of Mormon."
~ Ezra Taft Benson, CR April 1987, p.106

As I was in Zions National Park this week, I was able to share my brief testimony of the Book of Mormon with a group of teenagers. I felt the spirit and wished I had more time share about the infinite atonement. However, I was grateful that I was able to bear witness of the Book of Mormon and how God loves all of his children and we will receive more knowledge as we seek it.