Patience
Elder Neal A. Maxwell, Nov. 1979
"...There is also a dimension of patience which links it to a special
reverence for life. Patience is a willingness, in a sense, to watch the
unfolding purposes of God with a sense of wonder and awe, rather than
pacing up and down within the cell of our circumstance. Put another way,
too much anxious opening of the oven door and the cake falls instead of
rising. So it is with us. If we are always selfishly taking our
temperature to see if we are happy, we will not be.
When we are impatient, we are neither reverential nor reflective because
we are too self-centered. Whereas faith and patience are companions, so
are selfishness and impatience...
...Patience is tied very closely to faith in our Heavenly Father. Actually,
when we are unduly impatient we are suggesting that we know what is
best—better than does God. Or, at least, we are asserting that our
timetable is better than His. Either way we are questioning the reality
of God's omniscience as if, as some seem to believe, God were on some
sort of postdoctoral fellowship and were not quite in charge of
everything..."
Read it here on the BYU Speeches website
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