We have God’s assurance that, in the long view of eternity, opposition will not be allowed to overcome us.
—Dallin H. Oaks
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Sometimes our needed growth is achieved better by suffering and adversity
Sometimes our needed growth is achieved better by suffering and adversity than by comfort and tranquility. And none of this mortal opposition could achieve its eternal purpose if divine intervention relieved us from all the adverse consequences of mortality.
—Dallin H. Oaks
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Moses 6:55
…they taste the bitter, that they may know to prize the good.
Moses 6:55
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Opposition in all things is part of the refiner’s fire
Adversity should not be viewed as either disfavor from the Lord or a withdrawal of His blessings. Opposition in all things is part of the refiner’s fire to prepare us for an eternal celestial destiny.
—Quentin L. Cook
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2 Nephi 2:24-25
But behold, all things have been done in the wisdom of him who knoweth all things.
Adam fell that men might be; and men are, that they might have joy.
2 Nephi 2:24-25
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Doctrine & Covenants 122:7
And if thou shouldst be cast into the pit, or into the hands of murderers, and the sentence of death passed upon thee; if thou be cast into the deep; if the billowing surge conspire against thee; if fierce winds become thine enemy; if the heavens gather blackness, and all the elements combine to hedge up the way; and above all, if the very jaws of hell shall gape open the mouth wide after thee, know thou, my son, that all these things shall give thee experience, and shall be for thy good.
Doctrine & Covenants 122:7
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2 Nephi 2:16
Wherefore, the Lord God gave unto man that he should act for himself. Wherefore, man could not act for himself save it should be that he was enticed by the one or the other.
2 Nephi 2:16
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2 Nephi 2:2
Nevertheless, Jacob, my firstborn in the wilderness, thou knowest the greatness of God; and he shall consecrate thine afflictions for thy gain.
2 Nephi 2:2
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Doctrine & Covenants 29:39
And it must needs be that the devil should tempt the children of men, or they could not be agents unto themselves; for if they never should have bitter they could not know the sweet—
Doctrine & Covenants 29:39
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2 Nephi 2:11
For it must needs be, that there is an opposition in all things. If not so, my firstborn in the wilderness, righteousness could not be brought to pass, neither wickedness, neither holiness nor misery, neither good nor bad. Wherefore, all things must needs be a compound in one; wherefore, if it should be one body it must needs remain as dead, having no life neither death, nor corruption nor incorruption, happiness nor misery, neither sense nor insensibility.
2 Nephi 2:11
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Abraham 3:25
And we will prove them herewith, to see if they will do all things whatsoever the Lord their God shall command them;
Abraham 3:25
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Opposition permits us to grow
Opposition permits us to grow toward what our Heavenly Father would have us become.
— Dallin H. Oaks
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