Don't Give Up Hope

I have met people who have lost all hope. Repentance, they feel, is beyond their reach and forgiveness outside their grasp. Such do not understand the cleansing power of the Atonement. Or, if they do understand, they have not internalized the meaning of Jesus Christ’s suffering in Gethsemane and on the cross. For any of us to give up hope for the purifying of our lives is to disavow the depth, power, and extent of His suffering in our behalf.

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Hope in the Atonement

By Bishop Richard C. Edgley

First Counselor in the Presiding Bishopric

From a devotional address given at Brigham Young University on November 4, 2008. For the full text in English, visit speeches.byu.edu.