Atonement

The grace of Christ covers 100% of our mistakes. His atonement allows all sins to be forgiven so that I can receive the blessings of Eternal Life. Recently I have realized more fully my dependence on Christ. Circumstances that Heavenly Father has so wisely placed me in have allowed me to see my weaknesses and have compelled me to be humble. I am so grateful for Christ and what He did for me. I have partaken of the sacrament so many times without understanding of the significance of it. The bread and water represent Christ’s body and blood. I physically partake of the bread and water and allow my body to use it as sustenance. This represents how I should use the gift of the atonement for my spirit. I would spiritually die without the gift of the atonement. I love Christ and what He did for me.

“In the private sanctuary of one’s own conscience lies that spirit, that determination to cast off the old person and to measure up to the stature of true potential.”
–President Monson, Looking Back and Moving Forward, April 2008 General Conference

“It was understood from the beginning that in mortality we would fall short of being perfect. It was not expected that we would live without transgressing one law or another.”
–President Packer, The Atonement, October 2012 General Conference

 “If you have made no mistakes, then you do not need the Atonement. If you have made mistakes, and all of us have, whether minor or serious, then you have an enormous need to find out how they can be erased so that you are no longer in darkness..”
–President Packer, The Atonement, October 2012 General Conference

"That is the promise of the gospel of Jesus Christ and the Atonement: to take anyone who comes, anyone who will join, and put them through an experience so that at the end of their life, they can go through the veil having repented of their sins and having been washed clean through the blood of Christ."

–President Packer, The Atonement, October 2012 General Conference

“We do not know exactly how the Lord accomplished the Atonement. But we do know that the cruel torture of crucifixion was only part of the horrific pain which began in Gethsemane—that sacred site of suffering—and was completed on Golgotha.”
–President Packer, The Atonement, October 2012 General Conference

“This glorious doctrine is another witness of the all-encompassing nature of the Atonement of Jesus Christ. He made salvation available to every repentant soul. His Atonement conquered death, and He permits the worthy deceased to receive all ordinances of salvation vicariously.”
–Elder Scott, The Joy of Redeeming the Dead, October 2012 General Conference

“For the sacrament to be a spiritually cleansing experience each week, we need to prepare ourselves before coming to sacrament meeting. We do this by deliberately leaving behind our daily work and recreation and letting go of worldly thoughts and concerns. As we do, we make room in our minds and hearts for the Holy Ghost.”

 –Elder Hales, Coming to Ourselves: The Sacrament, the Temple, and Sacrifice in Service, April 2012 General Conference

“It is true that we are in many ways ordinary and imperfect, but we have a perfect Master who wrought a perfect Atonement, and we have call upon His grace and His priesthood. As we repent and purge our souls, we are promised that we will be taught and endowed with power from on high.”
–Elder Christofferson, Brethren, We Have Work to Do, October 2012 General Conference

“Most people in trouble end up crying, ‘What was I thinking?’ Well, whatever they were thinking, they weren’t thinking of Christ. Yet, as members of His Church, we pledge every Sunday of our lives to take upon ourselves His name and promise to ‘always remember him.’ So let us work a little harder at remembering Him—especially that He has ‘borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows …, [that] he was bruised for our iniquities …; and with his stripes we are healed.’ Surely it would guide our actions in a dramatic way if we remembered that every time we transgress, we hurt not only those we love, but we also hurt Him, who so dearly loves us.”
–Elder Holland, Place No More for The Enemy of My Soul, April 2010 General Conference

“We cannot go back in time and change the past, but we can repent. The Savior can wipe away our tears of regret and remove the burden of our sins. His Atonement allows us to leave the past behind and move forward with clean hands, a pure heart, and a determination to do better and especially to become better.”
–President Uchtdorf, Of Regrets and Resolutions, October 2012 General Conference