“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. …" (Orson F. Whitney, as cited in Kimball, Faith Precedes the
Miracle, p. 98.)
