Quotes from The Infinite Atonement

As I said in my review for the book The Infinite Atonement by Tad R. Callister, it gave me a lot to think about. Since I borrowed the book from the library, I didn't feel right about highlighting the snippets that called out to me. Instead, I took some photos.

Here are my favorites:

"Mercy can satisfy the demands of justice, and encircles them in the arms of safety."

"Faith precedes miracles, asking precipitates revelation, and pleading prompts pardons."

"Some may contend that the Savior cannot empathize with those who succumb to temptation because he never yielded and, therefore, he could not understand the apparently unique circumstances of those who did. The fallacy of such an argument is exposed by C.S. Lewis: 'No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good. A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is. After all, you find out the strength of the German army by fighting it, not by giving in. You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down. A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in. We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it: and Christ, because He was the only man who never yielded to temptation, is also the only man who knows to the full what temptation means -- the only complete realist.'"