He Succors Us in Our Afflictions

"The Savior can respond to our requests for help in several ways, including (a) relieving or lightening our burdens, (b) increasing our strength to carry our burdens, (c) allowing increased burdens to give us needed experience, and (d) not providing immediate help in order to test and strengthen our faith and to teach us."

 - Flávio A. Cooper, “Book of Mormon Principles: He Knows Our Suffering,” Ensign, Jun 2004

Things that Matter

"Someday, when we look back on mortality, we will see that so many of the things that seemed to matter so much at the moment will be seen not to have mattered at all. And the eternal things will be seen to have mattered even more than the most faithful of the Saints imagined."

-  Neal A. Maxwell,  Even As I Am (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book,  1982), 104