Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin of the Quorum of the 12 Apostles:
“You may feel singled out when adversity
enters your life. You shake your head and wonder, ‘Why me?’ “But the dial on
the wheel of sorrow eventually points to each of us. At one time or another,
everyone must experience sorrow. No one is exempt. . . .
“Learning to endure times of disappointment, suffering, and sorrow is part of
our on-the-job training. These experiences while often difficult to bear at the
time, are precisely the kinds of experiences that stretch our understanding,
build our character, and increase our compassion for others” (“Come What May,
and Love It,” Ensign or Liahona, Nov. 2008, 27).
Elder
Orson F. Whitney of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles:
“No pain that we suffer, no trial that we
experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such
qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and
all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our
characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender
and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God . . .
and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the
education that we come here to acquire” (in Spencer W. Kimball, Faith
Precedes the Miracle [1972], 98).
