- “Choose to converse with your Father in Heaven often. Make time every day to share your thoughts and feelings with Him. Tell Him everything that concerns you. He is interested in the most important as well as the most mundane facets of your life. Share with Him your full range of feelings and experiences. Because He respects your agency, Father in Heaven will never force you to pray to Him. But as you exercise that agency and include Him in every aspect of your daily life, your heart will begin to fill with peace, buoyant peace. That peace will focus an eternal light on your struggles. It will help you to manage those challenges from an eternal perspective.” Richard G. Scott, October 2014 General Conference
- “Certainly not everything we struggle with is a result of our actions. Often our trials result from the actions of others or just the mortal events of life. But anything we can change we should change, and we must forgive the rest.” Broken Things to Mend (Jeffrey R. Holland)- Kindle Location: 64-65
- “Understand that learning and personal growth, skill development, courage, persistence, the potential for empathy, and other important life assets, all come from your struggles, and especially your failures.” Beating the Midas Curse, by Perry L. Cochell and Rodney C. Zeeb, Page 52
- “Vision guides us. It inspires. It leads, even through those tough times when our own personal maps can get jumbled. We have often heard successful people say that when they went through their toughest times, out of money, out of ideas, and out of luck, it was their vision for the future that pulled them through. They stayed true to their vision, and the vision sustained them.” Beating the Midas Curse, by Perry L. Cochell and Rodney C. Zeeb, Page 105
- “It was meant to be that life would be a challenge. To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal. Teach our members that if they have a good, miserable day once in a while, or several in a row, to stand steady and face them. Things will straighten out. There is great purpose in our struggle in life.” (Boyd K. Packer, Ensign, May 1978, 93)
- Proverbs 23:7…“The great overall struggle in the world today is, as it has always been, for the souls of men. Every soul is personally engaged in the struggle, and he makes his fight with what is in his mind. In the final analysis, the battleground is, for each individual, within himself. Inevitably he gravitates toward the subjects of his thoughts.” (Marion G. Romney, Ensign, Aug. 2005, 4)
- “When we seek inspiration to help make decisions, the Lord gives gentle promptings. These require us to think, to exercise faith, to work, to struggle at times, and to act. Seldom does the whole answer to a decisively important matter or complex problem come all at once. More often, it comes a piece at a time, without the end in sight.” (Richard G. Scott, Ensign, Nov. 1989, 32)
- “I feel my brethren and sisters, to exhort you with heartfelt expression. Be of good cheer–be not disheartened; for assuredly the day rapidly comes when your tears shall be dried, your hearts comforted, and you shall eat of the products of your labours. …” Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Lorenzo Snow. Chapter 7: Faithfulness in Times of Trial: “From the Shadows into the Glorious Sunshine”