Patience is not passive resignation, nor is it failing to act because of our fears. Patience means active waiting and enduring. It means staying with something and doing all that we can - working, hoping, and exercising faith; bearing hardship with fortitude, even when the desires of our hearts are delayed. patience is not simply enduring; it is enduring well!Impatience, on the other hand, is a symptom of selfishness. It is a trait of the self-absorbed. It arises from the all too-prevalent condition called "center of the universe" syndrome, which leads people to believe that the world revolves around them and that all others are just supporting cast in the grand theater of mortality in which only they have the starring role.

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Dieter F. Uchtdorf was German aviator, airline executive and religious leader. Dieter Friedrich Uchtdorf is a German aviator, airline executive and religious leader. He is currently the senior member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Read more on Wikipedia →

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