"Patience is not indifference. Actually, it is caring very much, but being willing, nevertheless, to submit both to the Lord and to what the scriptures call the ‘process of time.’
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…
We read in Mosiah about how the Lord simultaneously tried the patience of his people even as he tries their faith. One is not only to endure—but to endure well and gracefully those things which the Lord ‘seeth fit to inflict upon us."
-Elder Neal A. Maxwell
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