“The many imperfections which trouble our daily lives require us to be a repenting as well as a repentant people. We should pay attention to the gentle admonitions as well as the thundering warnings.”

“I learned the first rule of repentance: that repentance requires greater intimacy with God than with our sin. How much greater? About the size of a mustard seed. Repentance requires that we draw near to Jesus, no matter what. And sometimes we all have to crawl there on our hands and knees. Repentance is an intimate affair. And for many of us, intimacy with anything is a terrifying prospect.”

“Repentance is a divine gift, and there should be a smile on our faces when we speak of it. It points us to freedom, confidence, and peace.”

“When we sin, we injure our soul, and divine treatment is needed to make us whole again. Repentance provides the condition that allows the Savior, through the powerof the Atonement, to heal us (see 3 Nephi 9:13). If some part of repentance is not comfortable…we need to repent anyway.”

“When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.”

“Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.”