“Perhaps at this beginning of a new year there is no greater
requirement for us than to do as the Lord Himself said He does: ‘He who has
repented of his sins, the same is forgiven, and I, the Lord, remember them no
more.’ The proviso, of course, is that repentance has to be sincere, but when
it is and when honest effort is being made to progress, we are guilty of the
greater sin if we keep remembering and recalling and re-bashing someone with
his or her earlier mistakes—and that someone might be ourselves. We can be so
hard on ourselves—often much more so than on others! Now, like the
Anti-Nephi-Lehies of the Book of Mormon, bury your weapons of war and leave
them buried. Forgive and do that which is sometimes harder than to forgive:
forget. And when it comes to mind again, forget it again.” – Elder Jeffrey R.
Holland
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