GEMS-Teachings: The Power of the Lord’s Tender Mercies

Gems from the Teachings of Church Leaders
The Power of the Lord’s Tender Mercies
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“We should not underestimate or overlook the power of the Lord’s
tender mercies. The simpleness, the sweetness, and the constancy of the
tender mercies of the Lord will do much to fortify and protect us in the
troubled times in which we do now and will yet live. When words cannot
provide the solace we need or express the joy we feel, when it is simply
futile to attempt to explain that which is unexplainable, when logic and
reason cannot yield adequate understanding about the injustices and
inequities of life, when mortal experience and evaluation are insufficient
to produce a desired outcome, and when it seems that perhaps we are so
totally alone, truly we are blessed by the tender mercies of the Lord and
made mighty even unto the power of deliverance (see 1 Nephi
1:20).”

Topics: mercy, protection, adversity, peace, kindness

( Elder David A. Bednar, “The Tender Mercies of the Lord,” Ensign, May 2005, 100)