You think you know yourself and who you are, but you don’t truly know until you are tested. You must be tested in your area of weakness… and many times you don’t know it is your weakness.. you may even think it is your strength.
It is through your trials that you do become who you hoped you were.
– Thoughts from conversation with Amber about how to improve on weaknesses. In particular, pride. – 06/10/06.
Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing: the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault. Do you think that even Jesus, if He were here, would be without fault in your eyes? His enemies said all manner of evil against Him—they all watched for iniquity in Him.
I … went over to the store [in Nauvoo, Illinois], where a number of brethren and sisters were assembled, who had arrived this morning from the neighborhood of New York. … I told them I was but a man, and they must not expect me to be perfect; if they expected perfection from me, I should expect it from them; but if they would bear with my infirmities and the infirmities of the brethren, I would likewise bear with their infirmities.
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