"No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our educatio, to the development of such qualitites as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds us our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called children of God... and it is through sorrow and sufferings, 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."
-Orson F. Whitney, in Spencer W. Kimball, Faith Precedes the Miracle (Salt Lake City: Desert Book, 1972), 98.
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