“It is not repentance per se that saves man. It is the blood of Jesus Christ that saves us. It is not by our sincere and honest change of behavior alone that we are saved, but ‘by grace that we are saved, after all we can do’ (2 Nephi 25:23). True repentance, however, is the condition required so that God’s forgiveness can come into our lives. True repentance makes ‘a brilliant day [out] of the darkest night’ (Spencer W. Kimball, The Miracle of Forgiveness [1969], 362)” (Uchtdorf, “Point of Safe Return,” 100).