President Dieter F. Uchtdorf
“I hope that we welcome and love all of God’s children,
including those who might dress, look, speak, or just do things differently. It
is not good to make others feel as though they are deficient. Let us lift those
around us. Let us extend a welcoming hand. Let us bestow upon our brothers and
sisters in the Church a special measure of humanity, compassion, and charity so
that they feel, at long last, they have finally found home. …
“It seems only right and proper that we extend to others
that which we so earnestly desire for ourselves.
“I am not suggesting that we accept sin or overlook evil, in
our personal life or in the world. Nevertheless, in our zeal, we sometimes
confuse sin with sinner, and we condemn too quickly and with too little
compassion. …
“… Let our hearts and hands be stretched out in compassion
toward others, for everyone is walking his or her own difficult path” (Dieter
F. Uchtdorf, “You Are My Hands,” Ensign or Liahona, May 2010, 68–69).
