LDS Place » Quotes http://www.ldsplace.com Sun, 27 Jun 2010 02:44:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 The Fall was not a disaster… http://www.ldsplace.com/761/the-fall-was-not-a-disaster http://www.ldsplace.com/761/the-fall-was-not-a-disaster#comments Mon, 19 Oct 2009 04:32:57 +0000 pam http://www.ldsplace.com/?p=761 “The Fall was not a disaster. It wasn’t a mistake or an accident. It was a deliberate part of the plan of salvation. We are God’s spirit ‘offspring,’ sent to earth ‘innocent’ of Adam’s transgression. Yet our Father’s plan subjects us to temptation and misery in this fallen world as the price to comprehend authentic joy. Without tasting the bitter, we actually cannot understand the sweet. We require mortality’s discipline and refinement as the ‘next step in [our] development’ toward becoming like our Father. But growth means growing pains. It also means learning from our mistakes in a continual process made possible by the Savior’s grace, which He extends both during and ‘after all we can do’ (2 Nephi 25:23).”

Bruce C. Hafen

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