Our Great and Merciful God (J. Reuben Clark)

“I believe that our Heavenly Father wants to save every one of His children. I do not think He intends to shut any of us off. …

“… I believe that in His justice and mercy He will give us the maximum reward for our acts, give us all that He can give, and in the reverse, I believe that He will impose upon us the minimum penalty which it is possible for Him to impose” 

(J. Reuben Clark, Conference Report, Oct. 1953, 84).

Might to save

There is never a time when the spirit is too old to approach God.  All are within reach of pardoning mercy.


Joseph Smith, Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 191




Behold, he who has repented of his sins is forgiven, and I, the Lord, remember them no more.


D&C 58:42




Cry unto Him for mercy; for He is might to save.


Alma 34:18

evil cannot develop into good

I do not think that all who choose wrong roads perish; but their rescue consists in being put back on the right road. A [mathematical] sum [incorrectly worked] can be put right; but only by going back till you find the error and then working it fresh from that point. [It will] never [be corrected] by simply going on. Evil can be undone, but it cannot “develop” into good. Time does not heal it. The spell must be unwound.

C. S. Lewis, The Great Divorce (New York: Macmillan Co., 1973), p. 6

The quality of mercy

https://mormonthoughts.wordpress.com/2010/11/10/the-quality-of-mercy/

The quality of mercy

The quality of mercy is not strain’d.

It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven

Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest:

It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.

‘Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes

The throned monarch better than his crown.

His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,

The attribute to awe and majesty,

Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;

It is an attribute to God Himself;

And earthly power doth then show likest God’s

When mercy seasons justice.

-Shakespear- Merchant of Venice