Trials

Nevertheless, as I have said, it is necessary that we pass through certain ordeals, and that we be tried. But why
is it that we should be tried? There is just the same necessity for it now that there was in former times. I heard
the Prophet Joseph say, in speaking to the Twelve on one occasion: "You will have all kinds of trials to pass
through. And it is quite as necessary for you to be tried as it was for Abraham and other men of God, and (said he) "God will feel after you, and He will take hold of you and wrench your very heart strings, and if you cannot stand it you will not be fit for an inheritance in the Celestial Kingdom of God."

John Taylor Journal of Discourses Vol 24 p. 198