“The Savior desires to save us from our inadequacies as well as from our
sins. Inadequacy is not the same as sinfulness-we have far more control over
the choice to sin than we may have over our innate capacity. The Lord will
not save us in our sins, but from them. However, he can save us in our
inadequacies as well as from them. A sense of falling short or falling down
is not only natural, but essential to the mortal experience. But, after all
we can do, the Atonement can fill that which is empty, straighten our bent
parts, and make strong that which is weak…The truth is not that we must
make it on our own, but that he will make us His own.”
Bruce C. Hafen, Ensign, Apr 1990, 7
