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"I could remember my pains no more; yea, I was harrowed up by the memory of my sins no more … Yea, … there can be nothing so exquisite and sweet as was my joy" (Alma 36:19–21).
"While for some the process of repentance can happen dramatically, as it did for Alma, this is more the exception than the rule," wrote Elder Neil L. Andersen, then of the Seventy and now of the Quorum of the Twelve (April 1995, Ensign, p. 51). "Most of us move step by step, inch by inch toward more goodness, more exactness in our covenants, more service and commitment. President Ezra Taft Benson said: 'For every Paul, for every Enos, and for every King Lamoni, there are hundreds and thousands of people who find the process of repentance much more subtle, much more imperceptible. Day by day they move closer to the Lord' (Ensign, October 1989, p. 5).
"Repentance is powerful spiritual medicine. There are few spiritual ills it will not cure. Each sin we leave behind through our faith in the living Christ — both those of commission and those of omission — opens spiritual doors. As we feel the potency of repentance, we better understand why Christ admonished the early missionaries of this dispensation to say nothing but repentance unto this generation'" (Doctrine and Covenants 6:9; 11:9; 19:21).
