Christ's atonement

When I was re-reading Elder Ballard's April 2012 Gen. conf.  talk a few days ago,  I realized that Elder Holland had given a similar message in his talk.  I am always looking for patterns and/or principles that are emphasized.


What a great message. 

I do not know who in this vast audience today may need to hear the message of forgiveness inherent in this parable [of the laborers in the vineyard], but however late you think you are, however many chances you think you have missed, however many mistakes you feel you have made or talents you think you don’t have, or however far from home and family and God you feel you have traveled, I testify that you have not traveled beyond the reach of divine love. It is not possible for you to sink lower than the infinite light of Christ’s Atonement shines.

                      ~Elder Jeffrey R. Holland,  The Laborers in the Vineyard

Now, if for any reason you individually or as a family have lost your way, then you need only apply the Savior’s teachings from Luke, chapter 15, to correct your course. Here the Savior tells of the effort of a shepherd searching for his lost sheep, of a woman searching for a lost coin, and of the welcome received by the prodigal son returning home. Why did Jesus teach these parables? He wanted us to know that none of us will ever be so lost that we cannot find our way again through His Atonement and His teachings.
         
                     ~Elder M. Russell Ballard, That the Lost May Be Found

Just found something similar in Pres. Monson's talk to the Young Women of the church:

I have said it before; I will say it again: there is no fog so dense, no night so dark, no gale so strong, no mariner so lost but what the lighthouse of the Lord can rescue. It beckons through the storms of life. It calls, “This way to safety. This way to home.” It sends forth signals of light easily seen and never failing. If followed, those signals will guide you back to your heavenly home.

~Pres. Thomas S. Monson, Believe, Obey, Edure