“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 and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.”
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“When we treat people merely as they are, they will remain as they are. When we treat them as if they were what they should be, they will become what they should be.”
― Pathways to perfection;: Discourses of Thomas S. Monson
― Pathways to perfection;: Discourses of Thomas S. Monson
“Whatever the response to loss and tragedy, the experience seems to boil down to one journey--searching for Jesus.”
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