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.
Interpretation
Suffering and hardship are essential for spiritual growth and understanding.
Orson F. Whitney emphasizes that the challenges and pains we face in life serve a higher purpose; they are integral to our spiritual education and development. Through these experiences, we are refined and made more akin to our higher parents in heaven, suggesting that personal growth often emerges from difficulties.
In practice
During a motivational speech about overcoming adversity.
We cannot judge fully of men's works by what we see, or what is said and thought of them; for man is prone to depreciate that which is really important, and to exact and extol what is trivial and of little worth. Many things which are hidden and unrecognized of human wisdom are nevertheless valuable and vitally important.
You parents of the wilful and the wayward! Don't give them up. Don't cast them off. They are not utterly lost. The Shepherd will find his sheep. They were His before they were yours - long before He entrusted them to your care; and you cannot begin to love them as He loves them.
It is my belief that many who think they dislike poetry are really poetical in their natures and are indebted to it, more than they imagine, for the success they may have achieved, even in practical pursuits, and for the enjoyment their lives have afforded them.
The purpose of the guru is not to weaken your will. It is to teach you secrets of developing your inner power, until you can stand unshaken amidst the crash of breaking worlds.
Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal.
You're the only one who knows when you're using things to protect yourself and keep your ego together and when you're opening and letting things fall apart, letting the world come as it is - working with it rather than struggling against it. You're the only one who knows.
The victories of character are instant, and victories for all.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
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