Dieter F. Uchtdorf Quotes About Repentance

Quotes about: Repentance

• The heavens will not be filled with those who never made mistakes but with those who recognized that they were off course and who corrected their ways to get back in the light of gospel truth.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Mistake, Light, Heaven

  "A Matter of a Few Degrees". Dieter F. Uchtdorf's speech at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. April, 2008.

• We need to ask God for forgiveness and do all we can to correct whatever harm our actions may have caused. Repentance means a change of mind and heart—we stop doing things that are wrong, and we start doing things that are right. It brings us a fresh attitude toward God, oneself, and life in general.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Attitude, Heart, Mean

• Sin is the willful transgression of divine law. The Atonement of Jesus Christ is the gift of God to His children to correct and overcome the consequences of sin. The gift of the Atonement of Jesus Christ provides us at all times and at all places with the blessings of repentance and forgiveness.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Jesus, Children, Blessing

• There is an important difference between the sorrow for sin that leads to repentance and the sorrow that leads to despair.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Differences, Sorrow, Important

• Faith in Jesus Christ and a testimony of Him and His universal Atonement is not just a doctrine with great theological value. Such faith is a universal gift, glorious for all cultural regions of this earth, irrespective of language, race, color, nationality, or socioeconomic circumstance. The powers of reason may be used to try to understand this gift, but those who feel its effects most deeply are those who are willing to accept its blessings, which come from a pure and clean life of following the path of true repentance and living the commandments of God.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Jesus, Blessing, Race

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