Dieter F Uchtdorf Point of Safe Return Ensign

Dieter F. Uchtdorf “Point of Safe Return, ” Ensign or Liahona, May 2007, 99 1 of 3 “[Airplane] flights over huge oceans, crossing extensive deserts, and connecting continents need careful planning to ensure a safe arrival at the planned destination. Some of these nonstop flights can last up to 14 hours and cover almost 9, 000 miles.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf “Point of Safe Return, ” Ensign or Liahona, May 2007, 99 2 of 3 “There is an important decision point during such long flights commonly known as the point of safe return. Up to this point the aircraft has enough fuel to turn around and return safely to the airport of departure. Having passed the point of safe return, the captain has lost this option and has to continue on.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf “Point of Safe Return, ” Ensign or Liahona, May 2007, 99 3 of 3 That is why this point is often referred to as the point of no return. . “. . . Satan wants us to think that when we have sinned we have gone past a ‘point of no return’—that it is too late to change our course. ”

Henry B. Eyring “Covenants and Sacrifice” [address given at the Church Educational System symposium on the Old Testament, Aug. 15, 1995], 2 1 of 3 “I had a new feeling about what it means to make a covenant with the Lord. All my life I had heard explanations of covenants as being like a contract, an agreement where one person agrees to do something and the other agrees to do something else in return.

Henry B. Eyring “Covenants and Sacrifice” [address given at the Church Educational System symposium on the Old Testament, Aug. 15, 1995], 2 2 of 3 “For more reasons than I can explain, during those days teaching Hosea, I felt something new, something more powerful. This was not a story about a business deal between partners. . This was a love story. This was a story of a marriage covenant bound by love, by steadfast love.

Henry B. Eyring “Covenants and Sacrifice” (address given at the Church Educational System symposium on the Old Testament, Aug. 15, 1995), 2 3 of 3 What I felt then, and it has increased over the years, was that the Lord, with whom I am blessed to have made covenants, loves me, and you. . . with a steadfastness about which I continually marvel and which I want with all my heart to emulate. ”

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