So if your prayers seem unanswered, take heart…If sometimes the harder you try, the harder it gets, take heart. So it has been with the best people who ever lived….It is not easy to go without – physical gratifications, or spiritual assurances, or material possessions—but sometimes we must since there is no guarantee of convenience written into our Christian covenant. We must work hard and do right, and sometime our chance will come. And when we’ve tried, really tried, and waited for what seemed never to be ours, then the angels may come minister unto us. For that ministration in your life I pray…” (, Jeffrey R. Holland, “The Inconvenient Messiah,” BYU Devotional Feb 2, 1982).
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