Paul expresses it the same way: “Charity never faileth” (1 Corinthians 13:8). And why does charity never fail? Because Christ never fails. He is always there to nurture and bless His children. One certain measure of our faithfulness at the end of the day is the presence within us of the quality of charity. It will be well with us in the day of judgment if we are found possessed of this quality, for we can then be possessed by God as His children and merit tenancy in His heavenly home. Moroni rejoices in his father’s superb sermon on faith, hope, and charity—precisely the qualities that would have redeemed the Nephite nation from the depravity to which it has fallen at the time these chronicles were being written. Mormon explains that a person can “lay hold upon every good thing” (Moroni 7:25) through faith in Christ and His atoning sacrifice: “And Christ hath said, If ye will have faith in me ye shall have power to do whatsoever thing is expedient in me” (Moroni 7:33). The meek and lowly of heart will be sustained by their hope in Christ and, by prayerfully practicing charity—which is “the pure love of Christ” (Moroni 7:47)—be able to endure to the end in righteousness. Concerning this kind of redeeming hope, Elder Jeffrey R. Holland has declared:
What is the nature of this hope? It is certainly much more than wishful thinking. It is to have “hope through the atonement of Christ and the power of his resurrection, to be raised unto life eternal, and this because of your faith in him according to the promise.” [Moroni 7:41.] That is the theological meaning of hope in the faith-hope-charity sequence. With an eye to that meaning, Moroni 7:42 then clearly reads, “If a man have faith [in Christ and his atonement] he must needs [as a consequence] have hope [in the promise of the Resurrection, because the two are inextricably linked]; for without faith [in Christ’s atonement] there cannot be any hope [in the Resurrection].” … As Christ lived so should we live, and as Christ loved so should we love. But the “pure love of Christ” Mormon spoke of is precisely that—Christ’s love. With that divine gift, that redeeming bestowal, we have everything; without it we have nothing and ultimately are nothing, except in the end “devils [and] angels to a devil.” [2 Nephi 9:9.] … Life has its share of fears and failures. Sometimes things fall short. Sometimes people fail us, or economies or businesses or governments fail us. But one thing in time or eternity does not fail us—the pure love of Christ.” (Christ and the New Covenant: The Messianic Message of the Book of Mormon [Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1997], 334–337)