Three verses of the Doctrine and Covenants identify an important contrast between sins and mistakes. I had never pondered these verses until about one year ago when I was reading the Doctrine and Covenants for the 15th or 20th time. Their direction came to my mind with such freshness and impact that I thought they might have been newly inserted in my book. That is the way with prayerful study of the scriptures. The scriptures do not change, but we do, and so the same scriptures can give us new insights every time we read them.
Dallin H. Oaks, "Sins and Mistakes", Ensign, Oct. 1996, 62
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