Truman G. Madsen
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\u201cI stayed up part of the night worried as to whether I should say this, but I\u2019m going to say it . . . \u00a0If there are here some of you who have been tricked into the conviction that you have gone too far, that you have been weighed down on doubts upon which you alone have a monopoly; that you have had the poison of sin that makes it impossible ever again to be what you could have been, then hear me! I bear testimony that you cannot sink farther than the light and sweeping intelligence of Jesus Christ can reach. I bear testimony that as long as there is one spark of the will to repent and reach, He is there! He did not just descend to your condition, he descended below it; that he might be in and through all things the light of truth. If there is only one who will feel what I feel of the spirit of God bearing witness to that, I will have been grateful for this privilege.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nTruman G. Madsen<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
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