"Now your impressions will not have been quite like mine, but you have felt a tug, maybe many tugs, to be someone better... That urge to rise above yourself is a recognition of your need for the Atonement to work in your life, and your need to be sure that it is working. After all you can do, after all your effort, you need confidence that the Atonement is working for you and on you." Read the Full Text. Listen to the MP3.
From an address given by Henry B. Eyring at Brigham Young University on October 29, 1989 before his call as an Apostle in 1995 and later call to the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 2007.