Our sincere desire should be to have both clean hands and a pure heart - both a remission of sins from day to day and to walk guiltless before God.
David A. BednarI now extend to you the invitation to help transform the trickle into a floodโฆ.I exhort you to sweep the earth with messages filled with righteousness and truthโmessages that are authentic, edifying, and praiseworthyโand literally to sweep the earth as with a flood.
David A. BednarThe enabling power of the Atonement strengthens us to do and be good and to serve beyond our own individual desire and natural capacity.
David A. BednarWhen we believe or say we have been offended, we usually mean we feel insulted, mistreated, snubbed, or disrespected. And certainly clumsy, embarrassing, unprincipled, and mean-spirited things do occur in our interactions with other people that would allow us to take offense. However, it ultimately is impossible for another person to offend you or to offend me. Indeed, believing that another person offended us is fundamentally false. To be offended is a choice we make; it is not a condition inflicted or imposed upon us by someone or something else.
David A. BednarObedience to the law of chastity will increase our happiness in mortality and make possible our progress in eternity.
David A. BednarThus, the enabling and strengthening aspect of the Atonement helps us to see and to do and to become good in ways that we could never recognize or accomplish with our limited moral capacity. I testify and witness that the enabling power of the Savior's Atonement is real. Without that strengthening power of the Atonement, I could not stand before you this morning.
David A. Bednar