"Life has its share of some fear and some failure. Sometimes things fall short, don't quite measure up. Sometimes in both personal and public life, we are seemingly left without strength to go on. Sometimes people fail us, or economies and circumstance fail us, and life with its hardship and heartache can leave us feeling very alone," said Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, then of the Seventy and now a member of the Quorum of the Twelve during the October 1989 general conference.
"But when such difficult moments come to us, I testify that there is one thing which will never, never fail us. One thing alone will stand the test of all time, of all tribulation, all trouble, and all transgression. One thing only never faileth - and that is the pure love of Christ." `I remember,' Moroni cries to the Savior of the world, `that thou hast said that thou hast loved the world, even unto the laying down of thy life for the world. . . .
" `Now I know,' he writes, `that this love which thou hast had for the children of men is charity.' (Ether 12:33-34.)
"Having watched a dispensation die and an entire civilization destroy itself, Moroni quotes his father for any who will listen in some later (`latter') day, `If ye have not charity, ye are nothing.' (Moro. 7:46.) Only the pure love of Christ will see us through. It is Christ's love which suffereth long, and is kind. It is Christ's love which is not puffed up nor easily provoked. Only His pure love enables Him - and us - to bear all things, believe all things, hope all things, and endure all things." (See Moro. 7:45.)