“O My Son I Desire That Ye Should Deny the Justice of God No More”

"Corianton’s sins were grievous. And yet we have every reason to believe that Alma’s preaching touched the soul of his errant son, that Corianton ‘crossed himself’ (see Alma 39:9), repented, and returned to the ministry. We read of Corianton’s labors a year or so later: ’Thus ended the nineteenth year of the reign of the judges over the people of Nephi. Yea, and there was continual peace among them, and exceedingly great prosperity in the church because of their heed and diligence which they gave unto the word of God, which was declared unto them by Helaman, and Shiblon, and Corianton, and Ammon and his brethren, yea, and by all those who had been ordained by the holy order of God.’ (Alma 49:29-30.)

“Elder Orson F. Whitney held out this hope for the parents of wandering or wayward children: ’You parents of the wilful and the wayward: Don’t give them up. Don’t cast them off. They are not utterly lost. The shepherd will find his sheep. They were his before they were yours- long before he entrusted them to your care; and you cannot begin to love them as he loves them. They have but strayed in ignorance from the Path of Right, and God is merciful to ignorance. Only the fulness of knowledge brings the fulness of accountability. Our Heavenly Father is far more merciful, infinitely more charitable, than even the best of his servants, and the Everlasting Gospel is mightier in power to save than our narrow finite minds can comprehend.’ (CR, April 1929, p. 110.)” (McConkie & Millet, Doctrinal Commentary on the Book of Mormon, vol. 3, p. 320)