We had a great lesson on Job and dealing with the trials in our lives in Sunday School this last week. I was so impressed with several quotes that I wanted to share them with you...R
"If we looked at mortality as the whole of existence, then pain, sorrow, failure, and short life would be a calamity. But if we look upon life as an eternal thing stretching far into the pre-mortal past and on into the eternal post-death future, then all happenings my be put into proper perspective... Are we not exposed to temptations to test our strength, sickness that we might learn patience, death that we might be immortalized and glorified?"
"If all the sick for whom we pray were healed, if all the righteous were protected and the wicked destroyed, the whole program of the Father would be annulled and the basic principle of the gospel, free agency, would be ended. No man would have to live by faith." (Faith Precedes the Miracle, page 97)
President Spencer W. Kimball
"It is your reaction to adversity, not the adversity itself, that determines how your life's story will develop. He says to you, as He said to Joseph Smith, "[Your] adversity and [your] afflictions shall be but a small moment; and then, if [you] endure it well, God shall exalt [you] on high." Enduring adversity is not the only thing you must do to experience a happy life. (Your Happily Ever After, May 2010 Ensign) President Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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