“Divine love is infinite and universal. The Savior loves both saints and sinners. The Apostle John affirmed, ‘We love him, because he first loved us’ [1 John 4:19]. And Nephi, upon seeing in vision the Lord’s mortal ministry, declared: ‘The world, because of their iniquity, shall judge him to be a thing of naught; wherefore they scourge him, and he suffereth it; and they smite him, and he suffereth it. Yea, they spit upon him, and he suffereth it, because of his loving kindness and his long-suffering towards the children of men.’ [1 Nephi 19:9; italics added.] We know the expansiveness of the Redeemer’s love because He died that all who die might live again [see Romans 5:8; 2 Corinthians 5:14–15; see also 1 Corinthians 15:22]. …
“… The full flower of divine love and our greatest blessings from that love are conditional—predicated upon our obedience to eternal law” (Russell M. Nelson, “Divine Love,” Ensign,Feb. 2003, 24, 25).