"Patient endurance is to be distinguished from merely being “acted upon.” Endurance is more than pacing up and down within the cell of our circumstance; it is not only acceptance of the things allotted to us, it is to “act for ourselves” by magnifying what is allotted to us.
Therefore, true enduring represents not merely the passage of time, but the passage of the soul – and not merely from A to B, but sometimes all the way from A to Z. To endure in faith and doeth God’s will therefore involves much more than putting up with a circumstance. . . .
Patient endurance permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord and our faith in His timing when we are being tossed about by the surf of circumstance. Even when a seeming undertow grasps us, somehow, in the tumbling, we are being carried forward, though battered and bruised.
With enduring comes a willingness, therefore, to “press forward” even when we are bone weary and would much rather pull off to the side of the road. ... Without patient and meek endurance we will learn less, see less, feel less, and hear less." — Neal A. Maxwell
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