President Lorenzo Snow taught, “My young friends, there is an opportunity for you to become great—just as great as you wish to be. In starting out in life you may set your hearts upon things very difficult to attain to, but possibly within your reach. In your first efforts to gratify your desires you may fail, and your continued efforts may not prove what may be termed a success. But inasmuch as your efforts were honest efforts, and inasmuch as your desires were founded in righteousness, the experience you obtain while pursuing your hearts’ desires must necessarily be profitable to you, and even your mistakes, if mistakes you make, will be turned to your advantage.” Lorenzo Snow Teachings of the Presidents of the Church Chapter 6: Becoming Perfect before the Lord: day by day
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Discipleship is a Marathon, Not a Sprint
Neal A. Maxwell said,
“Paul wrote of how, even after faithful disciples had “done the will of God,” they “[had] need of patience.” ( Heb. 10:36.) How many times have good individuals done the right thing initially only to break under subsequent stress? Sustaining correct conduct for a difficult moment under extraordinary stress is very commendable, but so is coping with sustained stress subtly present in seeming routineness. Either way, however, we are to “run with patience the race that is set before us” ( Heb. 12:1), and it is a marathon, not a dash.”
“Endure it Well”
April 1990 General Conference
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