The Atonement gives purpose and potency to every event in history. President Gordon B. Hinckley spoke of its relationship to other events in world history: "When all is said and done, when all of history is examined, when the deepest depths of the human mind have been explored, there is nothing so wonderful, so majestic, so tremendous as this act of grace." (Teachings of Gordon B. Hinckley, 28) This was not just another great event in the chronicles of history. It was, as Hugh Nibley observed, "the one supreme reality of our life upon this earth!" (Of All Things, 6)

Tad R. Callister, The Infinite Atonement. 2000. p.3