“Feeding the hungry, healing the sick, rebuking hypocrisy,
pleading for faith—this was Christ showing us the way of the Father, He who is
merciful and gracious, slow to anger, long-suffering and full of goodness. In
His life and especially in His death, Christ was declaring, “This is God’s
compassion I am showing you, as well as that of my own. In the perfect Son’s
manifestation of the perfect Father’s care, in Their mutual suffering and
shared sorrow for the sins and heartaches of the rest of us, we see ultimate
meaning in the declaration: For God so loved the world, that he gave his only
begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have
everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world;
but that the world through him might be saved.” - Jeffrey R. Holland
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