Why is it that for many persons changing others is so exciting and so relevant, while changing oneself is so boring and irrelevant?
Neal A. MaxwellEvery dimension of the gospel is relevant to one or more of our social and political problems of our time.
Neal A. MaxwellPersonal, spiritual symmetry emerges only from the shaping of prolonged obedience. Twigs are bent, not snapped into shape.
Neal A. MaxwellTruly we work and live on a streetful of splendid people, whom we are to love and serve even if they are uninterested in us!
Neal A. MaxwellI fear that, as conditions worsen, many will react to the failures of too much government by calling for even more government. Then there will be more and more lifeboats launched because fewer and fewer citizens know how to swim. Unlike some pendulums, political pendulums to not swing back automatically; they must be pushed. History is full of instances when people have waited in vain for pendulums to swing back.
Neal A. Maxwell