We are often not only to slow to get on our knees, but to quick to rise from them.

We may never become accustomed to untrue and unjust criticism of us but we ought not to be immobilized by it.

The harrowing of the soul can be like the harrowing of the soil; to increase the yield, things are turned upside down.

The issue for us is trusting God enough to trust also His timing. If we can truly believe He has our welfare at heart, may we not let His plans unfold as He thinks best?

In a very real sense, all we need to know is that God knows all.

To think of enduring to the end as ‘hanging in there,’ doing one’s 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 ‘endure it well,’ gracefully, not grudgingly. (D&C 121:8.) We are also told that we must ‘endure in faith.’ (D&C 101:35.) These dimensions of enduring are important to note. Likewise, we are asked to endure ‘valiantly.’ (D&C 121:29.)

God's anger is kindled not because we have harmed him but because we have harmed ourselves.