“We should … give thanks for our afflictions because they turn our hearts to God and give us opportunities to prepare for what God would have us become. The Lord taught the prophet Moroni, ‘I give unto men weakness that they may be humble,’ and then promised that ‘if they humble themselves … and have faith in me, then will I make weak things become strong unto them’ (Ether 12:27). In the midst of the persecutions the Latter-day Saints were suffering in Missouri, the Lord gave a similar teaching and promise: ‘Verily I say unto you my friends, fear not, let your hearts be comforted; yea, rejoice evermore, and in everything give thanks; … and all things wherewith you have been afflicted shall work together for your good’ (Doctrine and Covenants 98:1, 3).”
President Dallin H. Oaks, “Give Thanks in All Things,” Liahona, May 2003, 96.
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