Quotes from Church Leaders
"Having “descended below all things,” He comprehends, perfectly and personally, the full range of human suffering! A spiritual sung in yesteryear has an especially moving and insightful line: “Nobody knows the troubles I’ve seen, nobody knows but Jesus.” Truly, Jesus was exquisitely “acquainted with grief,” as no one else."
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have ______.”
John 3
For it is expedient that there should be a great and last sacrifice; yea, not a sacrifice of man, neither of beast, neither of any manner of fowl; for it shall not be a human sacrifice; but it must be an _____ and ____ sacrifice.
Alma 34
"That he came into the world, even Jesus, to be crucified for the ____, and to bear the sins of the ___, and to sanctify the ____, and to cleanse it from all unrighteousness..."
Section 76 (hint: after verse 20 but before verse 50)
"I know what He felt in Gethsemane
Is too much to comprehend.
I know He did it all for us;
We have no greater Friend.
I know that He will come anew
With power and in glory.
I know I will see Him once again
At the end of my life’s story.
I’ll kneel before His wounded feet;
I’ll feel His Spirit glow.
My whispering, quivering voice will say,
“My Lord, my God, I know.”
"For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in ____all die, even so in ___shall all be made alive.
1 Corinthians 15 (hint: between verses 15 and 30)
"And he will take upon him death, that he may loose the bands of death which bind his people; and he will take upon him their infirmities, that his bowels may be filled with mercy, according to the flesh, that he may know according to the flesh how to ____ his people according to their _____."
Alma 7
"Which suffering caused myself, even God, the greatest of all, to tremble because of pain, and to _____, and to suffer both body and spirit—and would that I might not drink the bitter cup, and shrink—"
Doctrine & Covenants 19
Verse 18: bleed at every pore
Physical death is separation of the body and spirit. Spiritual death is separation from God.
"The Savior isn’t our last chance; He is our only chance. Our only chance to overcome self-doubt and catch a vision of who we may become. Our only chance to repent and have our sins washed clean. Our only chance to purify our hearts, subdue our weaknesses, and avoid the adversary. Our only chance to obtain redemption and exaltation. Our only chance to find peace and happiness in this life and eternal life in the world to come."
"For in that he himself hath suffered being ___, he is able to succour them that are tempted.
Hebrews 2
Wherefore, it must needs be an infinite atonement—save it should be an infinite atonement this _____ could not put on _____...."
2 Nephi 9
"He that ascended up on high, as also he descended below all things, in that he _____ all things, that he might be in all and through all things, the light of truth."
D&C 88
"The Savior has suffered not just for our iniquities but also for the inequality, the unfairness, the pain, the anguish, and the emotional distresses that so frequently beset us. There is no physical pain, no anguish of soul, no suffering of spirit, no infirmity or weakness that you or I ever experience during our mortal journey that the Savior did not experience first. You and I in a moment of weakness may cry out, “No one understands. No one knows.” No human being, perhaps, knows. But the Son of God perfectly knows and understands, for He felt and bore our burdens before we ever did. And because He paid the ultimate price and bore that burden, He has perfect empathy and can extend to us His arm of mercy in so many phases of our life. He can reach out, touch, succor—literally run to us—and strengthen us to be more than we could ever be and help us to do that which we could never do through relying upon only our own power."
"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the ______, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised."
Luke 4
Yea, and it bringeth to pass the condition of ______, that whosoever repenteth the same is not hewn down and cast into the fire; but whosoever repenteth not is hewn down and cast into the fire; and there cometh upon them again a spiritual death, yea, a second death, for they are cut off again as to things pertaining to righteousness."
Helaman 14
"I am Jesus Christ; I came by the ___ of the Father, and I do his will."
D&C 19
"Unless there is a mediator, unless we have a friend, the full weight of justice untempered, unsympathetic, must, positively must fall on us. The full recompense for every transgression, however minor or however deep, will be exacted from us to the uttermost farthing.
But know this: Truth, glorious truth, proclaims there is such a Mediator."
"For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made ____."
1 Corinthians 15
"The soul shall be restored to the body, and the body to the soul; yea, and every limb and joint shall be restored to its body; yea, even a hair of the head shall not be lost; but all things shall be restored to their _______."
Alma 40
Verse 23: proper and perfect frame
"Listen to him who is the ____with the Father, who is pleading your cause before him—
Saying: Father, behold the sufferings and death of him who did no sin, in whom thou wast well pleased; behold the blood of thy Son which was shed, the blood of him whom thou gavest that thyself might be glorified."D&C 45
(Answer can vary.) Justice means that the rules must be followed exactly. Mercy means that even if one does not follow the rules exactly, he or she can still be saved.