If he did not suffer, if he did not bleed, if he did not feel every bit of the pain of execution as he gulped for air, then he would not be the Christ we know. He was fulfilling his epochal role in history on that cross; he was not playacting, not a god pretending to die. He was the Word made flesh, who was, however strangely and incomprehensibly, full of grace and truth.

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"World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man."

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"We stand now at the cross, in the moments of Jesus’s greatest pain. May we bear in mind the central emotional truth of Good Friday: that the Christian tradition grew from the most wrenching, mysterious, and mystifying sacrifice imaginable—that of a father’s offering of his child."

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"In a sense, your small and simple sacrifices are the dots of daily living that make up the masterpiece painting of your life. You may not see how the dots connect now, and you don’t need to yet. Simply have faith enough for the moment you are living in now. Trust in God, and ‘out of small things [will come] that which is great’ [Doctrine and Covenants 64:33]."

- Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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"With God all things are possible."

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"For we walk by faith, not by sight."

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"Jesus looked at them and said, ‘With man it is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God.’"

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"Jesus answered, ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.’"

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