Nothing is so much calculated to lead people to forsake sin as to take them by the hand, and watch over them with tenderness. When persons manifest the least kindness and love to me, O what power it has over my mind, while the opposite course has a tendency to harrow up all the harsh feelings and depress the human mind.... The nearer we get to our Heavenly Father the more are we disposed to look with compassion on perishing souls to take them upon our shoulders and cast their sins behind our back.
The Words of Joseph Smith, p.183 as quoted in Not My Will, but Thine by Neal A. Maxwell. 2008. Deseret Book. p. 87
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