“The great Mediator asks for our repentance not because we must ‘repay’ him in exchange for his paying our debt to justice, but because repentance initiates a developmental process that, with the Savior’s help, leads us along the path to a saintly character” CharacterHelpingAsksProcessJusticePathDebtRepentanceSaviorInitiateDevelopmentalMediators Author:Bruce C. Hafen
“The Savior’s gift of grace to us is not necessarily limited in time to ‘after’ all we can do. We may receive his grace before, during and after the time when we expend our own efforts” MayCan DoEffortGraceSavior Author:Bruce C. Hafen
“The Savior desires to save us from our inadequacies as well as our sins. Inadequacy is not the same as being sinful - we have far more control over the choice to sin than we may have over our innate capacity. . . . A sense of falling short or falling down is not only natural but essential to the mortal experience. Still, after all we can do, the Atonement can fill that which is empty, straighten our bent parts, and make strong that which is weak.” WellsMayStillsDesireChoicesFallStrongCan DoNaturalSinEssentialsCapacityEmptyWeakMortalsEmptinessSaviorBentInnateFalling DownAtonementInadequacy Author:Bruce C. Hafen
