"Love is the very essence of the
gospel, and Jesus Christ is our Exemplar. His life was a legacy of love. The sick He healed; the downtrodden He lifted;
the sinner He saved. At the end the angry mob took His life. And yet there
rings from Golgotha’s hill the words: 'Father, forgive them; for they know not
what they do'—a crowning
expression in mortality of compassion and love."
—Thomas S. Monson
