The more we incline our hearts and minds toward God, the more heavenly light distills upon our souls. Gradually, things that before seemed hazy, dark, and remote become clear, bright and familiar with us.
Dieter F. UchtdorfPatience is not passive resignation, nor is it failing to act because of our fears. Patience means active waiting and enduring. It means staying with something and doing all that we can - working, hoping, and exercising faith; bearing hardship with fortitude, even when the desires of our hearts are delayed. Patience is not simply enduring; it is enduring well!
Dieter F. UchtdorfPatience means accepting that which cannot be changed and facing it with courage, grace, and faith. It means being โwilling to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon [us], even as a child doth submit to his father.โ Ultimately, patience means being โfirm and steadfast, and immovable in keeping the commandments of the Lordโ every hour of every day, even when it is hard to do so. In the words of John the Revelator, โHere is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and โฆ faith [in] Jesus.โ
Dieter F. UchtdorfOften the answer to our prayer does not come while weโre on our knees but while weโre on our feet serving the Lord and serving those around us. Selfless acts of service and consecration refine our spirits remove the scales from our spiritual eyes and open the windows of heaven. By becoming the answer to someoneโs prayer we often find the answer to our own.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf