We were sent to endure and return to Him with honor

“…We are not talking…about a passive patience which waits only for the passing of time to heal or resolve things which happen to us, but rather a patience that is active, which makes things happen. Such was the patience Paul described in his epistle to the Romans when he used the words ‘by patient continuance in well doing.’

Angel Abrea

 

“What a strange paradox that our best intentions can become the very things that lead to our defeat. That is why we all need the grace and atonement of Jesus Christ; to save us from ourselves,

and to help us reach beyond the limitations of our own abilities.”

Steven A Cramer

 

“It was not by avoiding the realities of life’s temptations that the Savior’s holiness was perfected. No one ever walked the earth more conscious of sin than Jesus Christ. His holiness and purity came, as should ours, by the resistance and conquest of temptation. The more we resist, the holier we are.”

Steven A Cramer

 

“Christ stands at the door and knocks, but he never kicks it in. We must open the door.”
Stephen E. Robinson

 

“God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity in the cloud, the oil in the earth. He left the rivers unbridged and the forests unfelled and the cities unbuilt. God gives to man the challenge of raw materials, not the ease of finished things. He leaves the pictures unpainted and the music unsung and the problems unsolved, that man might know the joys and glories of creation.”

Thomas S. Monson

 

“In 1968 a marathon runner by the name of John Stephen Akhwari represented Tanzania in an international competition. A little over an hour after the winner had crossed the finish line, John Stephen Akhwari . approached the stadium, the last man to complete the journey. Though suffering from fatigue, leg cramps, dehydration, and disorientation, a voice called from within to go on, and so he went on. Afterwards, it was written, ‘Today we have seen a young African runner who symbolizes the finest in human spirit, a performance that gives meaning to the word courage.’ For some, the only reward is a personal one. There are no medals, only the knowledge that they finished what they set out to do’. When asked why he would complete a race he could never win, Akhwari replied, ‘My country did not send me 5,000 miles to start the race; my country sent me to finish the race.’ He knew who he was-an athlete representing the country of Tanzania. He knew his purpose-to finish the race. He knew that he had to endure to the finish, so that he could honorably return home to Tanzania. Our mission in life is much the same. We were not sent by Father in Heaven just to be born.

We were sent to endure and return to Him with honor.”

Robert D. Hales