Pressing on in painful circumstances is the discipline of keeping
our faith when everything not only goes wrong but becomes worse.
It means holding onto the Lord during deep trials and
asking Him to hold onto us when we feel weak in faith and hope.
Sheila Cragg
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"No pain that we suffer, no trial 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, build 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 to acquire."
Orson F. Whitney
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Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world -
unless we touch others, we're out of touch with life.
If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I wouldn't pass it
around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favor. Trouble creates
a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's
as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a
friend, for you'll see a lot of it and
had better bo on speaking terms with it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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