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12-19-2008, 10:21 AM
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No Trial we experience is wasted
 No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude, and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God. . .and 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."
(Quoted in Spencer W. Kimball, Faith Precedes the Miracle, p. 98. 
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12-19-2008, 03:06 PM
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The word Mother in Heaven is not often used in GC or by leaders of the church. President Kimball was outspoken on several subjects and this was one of them when discussing our Heavenly Parents.
As I agree with trials and it is up to us to learn from them and apply it in our daily lives.
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12-19-2008, 03:52 PM
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I have always (well, since becoming an adult) believed that every thing we experience is a learning opportunity. Nothing we go through is "wasted"...there is always a lesson to take from any situation.
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True Grits "If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters." (~Alan Simpson~) "If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men." (~St. Francis of Assisi~)
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12-19-2008, 04:37 PM
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When my son was diagnosed with Brain Tumor (Cancer) back in 1990 ( he was six) I recieved this from the Stake President at the time. Son died in 1992 so This Quote has been a blessing for me for many years.
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12-19-2008, 07:56 PM
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thats an awesome quote....
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As Long As I Am Here......It Doesn't Matter Where Here Is..... Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them....Ronald Reagan The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.......Will Rogers
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12-20-2008, 09:26 AM
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(Think about it from the perspective of a righteous parent, and not a kid...) LM
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If I were rich, I'd have the time that I lack, to sit in the synagogue and pray. And maybe have a seat by the Eastern wall. And I'd discuss the holy books with the learned men, several hours every day. That would be the sweetest thing of all. Ohhh.... If I were a rich man...
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12-20-2008, 09:41 AM
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Perhaps I just don't have a good perspective, but suffering and sorrow doesn't sound very happy to me.
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I say that we need to teach our people to find their answers in the scriptures...But the unfortunate thing is that so many of us are not reading the scriptures. We do not know what is in them, and therefore we speculate about things that we ought to have found in the scriptures themselves. I think that therein is one of our biggest dangers of today." --President Harold B. Lee, December, 1972
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12-20-2008, 09:46 AM
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for me without the Suffering we would not know JOY.
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