Truth, glorious truth, proclaims there is... a Mediator.... Through Him mercy can be fully extended to each of us without offending the eternal law of justice. This truth, is the very root of Christian doctrine. You may know much about the gospel as it branches out from there, but if you only know the branches and those branches do not touch that root, if they ave been cut free from that truth, there will be no life nor substance nor redemption in them.

Boyd K. Packer, Conference Report, April 1977, p.80 as found in Tad R. Callister, The Infinite Atonement. 2000. p. ix