Top 100 Neal A Maxwell Quotes
#1. Elder Neal A. Maxwell suggests that the prime reason the Savior personally acts as the gatekeeper of the celestial kingdom is not to exclude people, but to personally welcome and embrace those who have made it back home.
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#3. The winds of tribulation, which blow out some men's candles of commitment, only fan the fires of faith of others.
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#4. Satan delights to have us put ourselves down. Self-contempt is of Satan. There is no such thing in heaven.
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#5. We cannot lead or draw others to Christ unless we stand closer to Him than they do.
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#6. A basic cause of murmuring is that too many of us seem to expect that life will flow ever smoothly, featuring an unbroken chain of green lights with empty parking places just in front of our destinations!.
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#7. 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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#10. It is left to each of us to balance contentment regarding what God has allotted to us in life with some divine discontent resulting from what we are in comparison to what we have the power to become.
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#11. Coming unto the Lord is not a negotiation, but a surrender.
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#13. Spent time-like a spent bullet-tells us much about its "processor." for we see not only the residual slug, but indicators of how spent time is grooved by a man's soul, a reliable indicator of what a man is like.
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#14. Those of little faith mistake local cloud cover for general darkness. Keeping spiritually intact results in our keeping precious perspective by seeing "things as they really are."
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#15. The Church has done many difficult things, and from these achievements one would not wish to detract. But all the easy things the Church has had to do have been done. From now on it is high adventure!
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#16. When our minds really catch hold of the significance of Jesus' atonement, the world's hold on us loosens.
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#17. We can't dwell upon another's ingratitude without using up our time and talents unprofitably.
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#18. C. S. Lewis pointed out that some people are angry with God for His not existing, and others for His existing but for failing to do as mortals would have Him do. Instead of such childishness, we are urged to know God and to learn of His attributes.
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#19. He is conscious of the past and present injustices, but he knows that real remedies are to be found in contemporary Christian compassion, and not in compensatory justice.
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#20. Our God does not indulge us, but He is merciful toward our weaknesses as He strives to tutor us.
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#21. Love, patience, and meekness can be just as contagious as rudeness and crudeness.
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#22. We should not assume; however, that just because something is unexplainable by us, it is unexplainable.
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#23. Pure religion is having the courage to do what is right and let the consequence follow.
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#24. Real hope is much more than wishful musing. It stiffens, not slackens, the spiritual spine.
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#25. Sometimes, if you're like me, [God] will brace or reprove in a highly personal process not understood or appreciated by those outside the context.
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#26. Those who believe for a while make only a brief tour in the kingdom, though thereafter they often feel qualified to inform those who know even less about the Church; but the fact is they were really only tourists - not natives who really knew the kingdom's countryside.
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#29. The truth is that not yet usually means never. Trying to run away from the responsibility to decide about Christ is childish. Pilate sought to refuse responsibility for deciding about Christ, but Pilate's hands were never dirtier than just after he had washed them.
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#30. The great challenge is to refuse to let the bad things that happen to us do bad things to us. That is the crucial difference between adversity and tragedy.
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#31. For some Church members the Book of Mormon remains unread. Others use it occasionally as if it were merely a handy book of quotations. Still others accept and read it but do not really explore and ponder it. The book is to be feasted upon, not nibbled (see 2 Nephi 31:20).
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#32. Never give up what you want most for what you want today.
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#33. In contrast to the path of selfishness, there is no room for road rage on the straight and narrow way.
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#34. Just as doubt, despair, and desensitization go together, so do faith, hope, and charity. The latter, however, must be carefully and constantly nurtured, whereas despair, like dandelions, needs so little encouragement to sprout and spread. Despair comes so naturally to the natural man!
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#35. A vague goal is no goal at all. The Ten Commandments wouldn't be very impressive, for instance, if they weren't specific, but simply were couched in a phraseology such as 'thou shalt not be a bad person.
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#36. The enlarging of the soul requires not only some remodeling, but some excavating.
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#37. Personal, spiritual symmetry emerges only from the shaping of prolonged obedience. Twigs are bent, not snapped into shape.
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#38. As George MacDonald wisely wrote, "The one principle of hell is, I am my own!" 4 Fierce pride usually protects this wrong perception.
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#39. The mortal experience ... is not like a college course which we can passively audit. Instead, we are taking life's course for credit and there are no summers off - not even semester breaks.
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#40. 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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#41. Each of us is an innkeeper who decides if there is room for Jesus!
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#42. In the economy of Heaven, God does not send thunder if a still, small voice is enough, or a prophet if a priest can do the job.
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#44. It takes faith, too, and obedience, to conquer selfishness, that unsubmissive characteristic which, if unchecked, produces profound personal melancholy and solitariness. Selfishness is a form of self-worship, and we have been told, "Thou shalt have no other Gods before me" (Exodus 20:3).
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#45. God does not begin by asking us about our ability, but only about our availability, and if we then prove our dependability, he will increase our capability.
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#46. It is not the years but the changes that make us grow.
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#48. In order for men to partake of the fruit of felicity,they must plant the seeds thereof.
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#49. Sometimes we are so busy being the hammer or the anvil, that we forget who really needs the shaping.
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#50. It is so easy to be confrontive without being informative; indignant without being intelligent; impulsive without being insightful.
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#51. A father who finds it difficult to express his love vocally for his children may need, at first, to be humbly obedient in holding family home evenings in order to help him to discover, or to increase, his appreciation for his children. Next can come to him the courage to say I love you to each one.
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#52. Long ago it took a Copernicus to tell a provincial world that this planet was not the center of the universe. Some selfish moderns need a Copernican reminder that they are not the center of the universe either!
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#53. In Gospel grammar, death is not an exclamation point, merely a comma.
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#55. Patient endurance permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord and our faith in His timing when we are being tossed about by the surf of circumstance. Even when a seeming undertow grasps us, somehow, in the tumbling, we are being carried forward, though battered and bruised.
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#56. Of all the errors one could make, God's gospel plan is the wrong thing to be wrong about.
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#57. If another person only had in his storehouse of deserved self-esteem what you had put there, what would he have to draw upon and to sustain him?
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#58. The Book of Mormon is to be feasted upon, not nibbled.
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#59. Do not write a check with your tongue that your actions cannot cash.
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#60. If, in the end, you have not chosen Jesus Christ it will not matter what you have chosen.
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#61. The flame of family can warm us and at the same time be a perpetual pilot light to rekindle us.
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#63. The cavity which suffering carves into our souls will one day also be the receptacle of joy.
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#64. Obviously, family values mirror our personal priorities. Given the gravity of current conditions, would parents be willing to give up just one outside thing, giving that time and talent instead to the family.
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#65. A new calling can beckon us away from comfortable routine and from competencies already acquired.
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#66. We are vulnerable if we can be taken by a wave of emotion, invaded by an invidious impulse, roughed up by resentment, or engulfed by a surge of selfishness.
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#67. As you submit your wills to God, you are giving Him the only thing you can actually give Him that is really yours to give. Don't wait too long to find the altar or to begin to place the gift of your wills upon it! No need to wait for a receipt; the Lord has His own special ways of acknowledging.
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#68. What we insistently desire, over time, is what we become.
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#70. 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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#71. I am as I am, And so is a stone; Them that don't like me, Must leave me alone.
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#72. The charity of good women is such that their 'love makes no parade'; they are not glad 'when others go wrong'; they are too busy serving to sit statusfully about, waiting to be offended.
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#73. Those few members who desert the cause are abandoning an oasis to search for water in the desert.
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#74. The doctrine of foreordination is not a doctrine of repose; instead, it is a doctrine for second- and third-milers, and it will draw out of them the last full measure of devotion. It is a doctrine for the deep believer but it will bring only scorn from the skeptic.
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#75. One simply cannot come to a cause like the kingdom of God, with its celestial concepts, and not appreciate and identify with what Ammon said: "Behold, I say unto you, I cannot say the smallest part which I feel."
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#76. Finally, we can accept this stunning, irrevocable truth: Our Lord can lift us from deep despair and cradle us midst any care. We cannot tell him anything about aloneness or nearness! ... He who cannot lie, will atteast to our adequacy with the warm words, Well Done.
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#78. Even if work were not an economic necessity, it is a spiritual necessity.
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#79. Life is an 'open-book' exam, but the problem is that most of the students don't have the 'book', or refuse to open it-a fact that ought to spur us on as Church members to share the gospel more widely so that life would be meaningful for more people.
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#81. He knows that having put his hand to the plow he must not look back, because when we are looking back, we are also holding back.
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#82. We can hold to the iron rod even if others slip away and a few end up mocking us from "the great and spacious building."
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#84. The hardest work you and I will ever do is to put off our selfishness. It is heavy lifting!
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#85. Letting off steam always produces more heat than light.
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#86. I thank the Father that His Only Begotten Son did not say in defiant protest at Calvary, "My body is my own!" I stand in admiration of women today who resist the "fashion of abortion, by refusing to make the sacred womb a tomb!"
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#87. Any assessment of where we stand in relationship to Him tells us that we do not stand at all. We kneel.
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#88. 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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#89. Meekness, the subtraction of self, reduces the multiplication of words.
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#90. 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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#91. In a very real sense, all we need to know is that God knows all.
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#92. In any case, if recognition arising from proximate circumstances based upon fleeting criteria constitutes the sole measure of our personal significance, recognition will be both mercurial and insufficient.
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#93. When we feel so alone, we cannot presume to teach him who, at the apogee of his agony, trod "the winepress alone" anything about feeling forsaken.
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#94. The more seriously we work on our own imperfections, the less we are judgemental of the imperfections of others.
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#95. We are often not only to slow to get on our knees, but to quick to rise from them.
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#96. 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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#97. The gross size of our talent inventories is less important than the net use of our talents?
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#98. People who spend their time searching for feet of clay will miss not only the heavens wherein God moves in His majesty and power, but God's majesty as He improves and shapes a soul.
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#99. If we are not serving Jesus, and if he is not in our thoughts and hearts, then the things of the world will draw us instead to them! Moreover, the things of the world need not be sinister in order to be diverting and consuming.
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