Becoming As a Child

But King Benjamin, who understood as well as any mortal what it meant to be a man of strength and courage, makes it clear that to be like a child is not to be childish. It is to be like the Savior, who prayed to His Father for strength to be able to do His will and then did it. Our natures must be changed to become as a child to gain the strength we must have to be safe in the times of moral peril.

We are safe on the rock which is the Savior when we have yielded in faith in Him, have responded to the Holy Spirit’s direction to keep the commandments long enough and faithfully enough that the power of the Atonement has changed our hearts. When we have, by that experience, become as a child in our capacity to love and obey, we are on the sure foundation.

President Henry B. Eyring - April 2006 General Conference "As a Child"
https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2006/04/as-a-child?lang=eng

Refinement Through Adversity

“I cannot promise an end to your adversity in this life. I cannot assure you that your trials will seem to you to be only for a moment. One of the characteristics of trials in life is that they seem to make clocks slow down and then appear almost to stop.  There are reasons for that. Knowing those reasons may not give much comfort, but it can give you a feeling of patience. Those reasons come from this one fact: in Their perfect love for you, Heavenly Father and the Savior want you fitted to be with Them to live in families forever. Only those washed perfectly clean through the Atonement of Jesus Christ can be there.”

President Henry B. Eyring - April 2012 General Conference "Mountains to Climb"
https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2012/04/mountains-to-climb?lang=eng 

Welcoming Adversity

"There are great challenges ahead of us, giant opportunities to be met. I welcome that exciting prospect and feel to say to the Lord, humbly, “Give me this mountain,” give me these challenges."

President Spencer W. Kimball - October 1979 General Conference "Give Me This Mountain"
https://www.lds.org/general-conference/1979/10/give-me-this-mountain?lang=eng&query=give+me+these+challenges+president

Christ Knows

“That is part of the great plan of happiness the Father gave us. He allowed His Son to provide, by His sacrifice, the hope that comforts us no matter how hard the way home to Him may be..Only God knows hearts, and so only He can say, in truth, “I know how you feel.” So I can only imagine both her joy and the sorrow that preceded it, but the Lord, who loves her, knows."

President Henry B. Eyring - April 2015 General Conference "The Comforter" 
https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2015/04/the-comforter?lang=eng