You rock a sobbing child without wondering if today's world is passing you by, because you know you hold tomorrow tightly in your arms.
Neal A. MaxwellTo 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. MaxwellThe cumulative weight of all mortal sins--past, present, and future--pressed upon that perfect, sinless, and sensitive Soul! All our infirmities and sicknesses were somehow, too, a part of the awful arithmetic of the Atonement. (See Alma 7:11-12; Isa. 53:3-5; Matt. 8:17.) The anguished Jesus not only pled with the Father that the hour and cup might pass from Him, but with this relevant citation. 'And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; take away this cup from me.' (Mark 14:35-36.)
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