David A. Bednar Quotes

I cannot tell how much my heart suffered for my people while at Leavenworth.

If nothing else, there's comfort in recognising that no matter how much we fail and sin, death will limit our suffering.

While we yearn for peace, we live in a world burdened with hunger, pain, anguish, loneliness, sickness, and sorrow.

The amount of suffering I've seen is beyond belief. The amount of inequality is beyond belief.

I don't think we can be entirely happy seeing such misery around us.

There are no unforgivable sins.

God will make right all that is wrong, He will take away the lingering effect of sin and what's not right in our lives. He knows how painful life in this world can be.

The Saints never suffer as the sinners do.

He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.

The saving love of God is his doing whatever must be done, at great cost to himself, and for the least deserving, so that he might enthrall them with what will make them supremely happy forever, namely, himself.

Catholics should be proselytizing about a God who is love, who represents a hereafter where there's no hell, who wants you to lead a life where you can confess your sins and feel much better afterwards. Those are lovely concepts of God.

God forgive you, but I never can.

Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

Throughout history no one has suffered more than God. He has suffered because his own children fell away from him. Ever since the Fall, God has been working tirelessly for the restoration of mankind. People do not know this brokenhearted aspect of God.

All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.

God, to redeem us at the deepest portion of our nature - the urge to love and be loved - must reveal His nature in an incredible and impossible way. He must reveal it at a cross.

Christian faith is... basically about love and being loved and reconciliation. These things are so important, they're foundational and they can transform individuals, families.

The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance.

I love Jesus Christ. I am a Christian... I cry when I see injustice, children dying of hunger.

Jesus, Son of the Eternal God, have mercy on me.

Our greatest hope comes from the knowledge that the Savior broke the bands of death. His victory came through His excruciating pain, suffering, and agony. He atoned for our sins if we repent.

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

I marvel to think that the Son of God would condescend to save us, as imperfect, impure, mistake-prone, and ungrateful as we often are. I have tried to understand the Savior's Atonement with my finite mind, and the only explanation I can come up with is this: God loves us deeply, perfectly, and everlastingly.

Thankfully, while our self-righteousness reaches far, God's grace reaches farther.