To think of enduring to the end as โhanging in there,โ doing oneโs duty relentlessly, is not inaccurate. Yet enduring to the end is more than outlasting and surviving, though it includes those qualities. We are called upon, as was the Prophet Joseph, to โendure it well,โ gracefully, not grudgingly. (D&C 121:8.) We are also told that we must โendure in faith.โ (D&C 101:35.) These dimensions of enduring are important to note. Likewise, we are asked to endure โvaliantly.โ (D&C 121:29.)
Neal A. MaxwellIt is extremely important for you to believe in yourselves, not only for what you are now, but for what you have the power to become.
Neal A. MaxwellMen's and nations' finest hour consist of those moments when extraordinary challenge is met by extraordinary response. Hence in those darkest hours, we must light our individual candles rather than vying with others to call attention to the enveloping darkness. Our indignation about injustice should lead to illumination, for if it does not, we are only adding to the despair-and the moment of gravest danger is when there is so little light that darkness seems normal!
Neal A. MaxwellA basic cause of murmuring is that too many of us seem to expect that life will flow ever smoothly, featuring an unbroken chain of green lights with empty parking places just in front of our destinations!.
Neal A. MaxwellTime Management Tips: The perpetual processing of the same temptation is both dangerous and time-wasting. Cycling and recycling the same temptation (instead of rejecting such blandishment out of hand) is not only to risk one's soul, again and again, but is to bring on fatigue, so that the Adversary may be able to do indirectly what we will not let him do directly. A lack of decisiveness in dealing with temptation ties up our thought processes and prevents us from doing good with the time allotted to us.
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