Neal A. Maxwell Quotes

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Brigham Young observed, "Man's machinery makes things alike" (JD 9:370), while God gives to seemingly like individuals pleasing differences. Secularism is no friend of righteous individuality.

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A society which permits anything will eventually lose everything.

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Personal, spiritual symmetry emerges only from the shaping of prolonged obedience. Twigs are bent, not snapped into shape.

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What we insistently desire, over time, is what we become.

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Joshua didn't say choose you next year whom you will serve; he spoke of "this day," while there is still daylight and before the darkness becomes more and more normal.

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Although goal setting can clearly be overdone, only a few people are overly involved with goals and goal setting; most people do far too little goal setting, including the reflecting that precedes the setting of such goals. Too many marriages have financial goals but not other explicit goals. Yet the gospel is certainly goal-oriented.

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Do not let the future be held hostage by the past

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Patience helps us to view imperfections in others more generously to the end that we may learn to be more wise than they have been.

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We, more than others, should carry jumper and tow cables not only in our cars, but also in our hearts, by which means we can send the needed boost or charge of encouragement or the added momentum to mortal neighbors.

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It is our job to lift others up, not to size them up.

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Truly we work and live on a streetful of splendid people, whom we are to love and serve even if they are uninterested in us!

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Defectors often cause more difficulty than disinterested disbelievers.

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I testify that He is utterly incomparable in what He is, what He knows, what He has accomplished and what He has experienced. Yet, movingly, He calls us His Friends

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How can we truly understand who we are unless we know who we were and what we have the power to become?

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Naive optimism and pervasive pessimism are both to be avoided, therefore. It's not an easy balance to maintain, to be asked to work away in the Ninevehs of our lives without being so conscious of the coming cataclysm that we are not serious citizens of our communities and nations. By living and sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ, we are doing the most relevant thing we can do by way of helping. (There are civic and other chores to be done, of course.) Day in and day out, the gospel is the one thing that is most relevant, and we are to be of good cheer.

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How can you and I really expect to glide naively through life, as if to say, 'Lord, give me experience, but not grief, not sorrow, not pain, not opposition, not betrayal, and certainly not to be forsaken. Keep from me, Lord, all those experiences which made Thee what Thou art! Then, let me come and dwell with Thee and fully share Thy joy!'

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We...live in a world that is too prone to the tasteless, and we need to provide an opportunity to cultivate a taste for the finest music. And, likewise, weโ€™re in a world thatโ€™s so attuned to the now that we need to permit people to be more attuned to the best music of all ages.

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Meekness, the subtraction of self, reduces the multiplication of words.

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Those few members who desert the cause are abandoning an oasis to search for water in the desert.

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The scriptures offer us so many doctrinal diamonds. And when the light of the Spirit plays upon their several facets, they sparkle with celestial sense and illuminate the path we are to follow.

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These really are our days, and we can prevail and overcome, even in the midst of trends that are very disturbing. If we are faithful the day will come when those deserving pioneers and ancestors, whom we rightly praise for having overcome the adversities in the wilderness trek, will praise todayโ€™s faithful for having made their way successfully through a desert of despair and for having passed through a cultural wilderness, while still keeping the faith.

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I find that goal setting, when done this way, leads to goal achieving. The chronic failure to achieve goals lowers self-esteem. Show me a failure to achieve a goal, and usually I can show you the violation of one or more of the above criteria. Imposed goals, vague goals, and unrealistic goals tend to produce only partial successes and outright failures.

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To think of enduring to the end as โ€˜hanging in there,โ€™ doing oneโ€™s duty relentlessly, is not inaccurate. Yet enduring to the end is more than outlasting and surviving, though it includes those qualities. We are called upon, as was the Prophet Joseph, to โ€˜endure it well,โ€™ gracefully, not grudgingly. (D&C 121:8.) We are also told that we must โ€˜endure in faith.โ€™ (D&C 101:35.) These dimensions of enduring are important to note. Likewise, we are asked to endure โ€˜valiantly.โ€™ (D&C 121:29.)

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Stubborn selfishness leads otherwise good people to fight over herds, patches of sand, and strippings of milk. All this results from what the Lord calls coveting "the drop," while neglecting the "more weighty matters." (D&C 117:8) Myopic selfishness magnifies a mess of pottage and makes thirty pieces of silver look like a treasure trove. In our intense acquisitiveness, we forget Him who once said, "What is property unto me?"

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The harrowing of the soul can be like the harrowing of the soil; to increase the yield, things are turned upside down.

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We can tell much by what we have already willing discarded along the pathway of discipleship. It is the only pathway where littering is permissible, even encouraged. In the early stages, the debris left behind includes the grosser sins of commission. Later debris differs; things begin to be discarded which have caused the misuse or underuse of our time and talent.

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The more seriously we work on our own imperfections, the less we are judgemental of the imperfections of others.

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On the straight and narrow path, there are simply no corners to be cut.

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The unwillingness of most leaders to set standards, to administer feedback when standards are not met, to praise clearly when standards are met, stands in the way of the development of excellence. The leader who makes no demands of his disciples cannot really lead them at all. The sense of new excitement and new challenge generated by the gospel will be blunted by leaders who shield followers from the full demands of fellowship.

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Within what is allotted to us, we can have spiritual contentment.

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Those who do too much for their children will soon find they can do nothing with their children. So many children have been so much done for they are almost done in.

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The "new" in us is bound to notice the "old" that remains.

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We cannot repent for someone else. But we can forgive someone else, refusing to hold hostage those whom the Lord seeks to set free!

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Good homes are still the best source of good humans.

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When in situations of stress we wonder if there is any more in us to give, we can be comforted to know that God, who knows our capacity perfectly, placed us here to succeed

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The submission of one's will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God's altar. The many other things we 'give' are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us.

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Never give up what you want most for what you want today.

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God will facilitate, but He will not force.

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Real disciples absorb the fiery darts of the adversary by holding aloft the quenching shield of faith with one hand, while holding to the iron rod with the other (see Eph. 6:16; 1 Ne. 15:24; D&C 27:17). There should be no mistaking; it will take both hands!

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God's extraordinary work is most often done by ordinary people in the seeming obscurity of a home and family.

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Celestial criteria measures service, not status.

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When our minds really catch hold of the significance of Jesus' atonement, the world's hold on us loosens.

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God is very serious about joy in the lives of His children.

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Even if work were not an economic necessity, it is a spiritual necessity.

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Patience is tied very closely to faith in our Heavenly Father. Actually, when we are unduly impatient, we are suggesting that we know what is bestโ€”better than does God. Or, at least, we are asserting that our timetable is better than His. We can grow in faith only if we are willing to wait patiently for God's purposes and patterns to unfold in our lives, on His timetable.

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Crowds cannot make right what God has declared to be wrong.

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Without gospel truths, man's efforts to reach his goals are like the northbound explorer who drove his dog sled feverishly northward on an ice pack that was flowing southward - only to find himself farther from his destination at the end of a hard day's journey than he had been at dawn!

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Sometimes the best people... have the worst experiences... because they are ready to learn

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