David Baker Quotes

When our Heavenly Father placed Adam and Eve on this earth, He did so with the purpose in mind of teaching them how to regain His presence. Our Father promised a Savior to redeem them from their fallen condition.

God our Father and His Son Jesus Christ, with Their perfect foreknowledge, already recommended every one of you to fill your mortal probation during the most decisive period in the history of the world.

Once we truly grasp the message of the 'New Testament', it is impossible to read the 'Old Testament' again without seeing Christ on every page, in every story, foreshadowed or anticipated in every event and narrative.

A lot of Christians have been taught a story that begins in chapter 3 of Genesis, instead of chapter 1. If your story doesn't begin in the beginning, but begins in chapter 3, then it starts with sin, and so the story becomes about dealing with the sin problem. So Jesus is seen as primarily dealing with our sins.

The reason why the Son of God took upon him our nature, was, the fall of our first parents.

We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

Occasionally, we are given a reminder of how precious a gift it is to understand the plan of salvation.

I never understood redemption when I was young. Even before I was an atheist, I always thought with the prodigal son, "well, why's he getting the special treatment?"

The full benefit of forgiveness of sin through the Savior's Atonement begins with repentance and baptism and then expands upon receiving the Holy Ghost.

Even the holy men who lived before the coming of Christ understood that God had in mind plans of peace for the human race.

It is not repentance per se that saves man. It is the blood of Jesus Christ that saves us.

If nothing else, there's comfort in recognising that no matter how much we fail and sin, death will limit our suffering.

The gospel comprises indeed, and unfolds, the whole mystery of man's redemption, as far forth as it is necessary to be known for our salvation.

When we tell the story of our own conversion, I would have it done with great sorrow, remembering what we used to be, and with great joy and gratitude, remembering how little we deserve these things.

I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.

By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.

He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.

The blood of Christ covers all of our sins, but each of us must do personal business with God in order to experience his forgiveness.

I have been a man of great sins, but He has been a God of great mercies; and now, through His mercies, I have a conscience as sound and quiet as if I had never sinned.

A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.

The outpouring of Christ's blood is the source of the church's life.

My prayer is that the good news of Jesus, the crucified and risen Messiah, would flood Jewish communities around the world, that the veil would be lifted, and that we would see a massive turning of Israel to the Lord Jesus.

Protection against the influence of the devil comes through the gospel of Jesus Christ. It is the good news that Jesus Christ has made a perfect Atonement for mankind.

It's only through Christ that we can take full advantage of God's mercy and forgiveness through repentance in Jesus' name.