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).
