Neal A. Maxwell Quotes
When at length we tire of putting people down, this self-inflicted fatigue can give way to the invigorating calisthenics of lifting people up.
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.
We must not fail, individually, for if we fail, we fail twice - for ourselves and for those who could have been helped, if we had done our duty.
Personal, spiritual symmetry emerges only from the shaping of prolonged obedience. Twigs are bent, not snapped into shape.
Our journey is demanding enough that the need for reassurance as well as reminders is constant.
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.
Of all the errors one could make, God's gospel plan is the wrong thing to be wrong about.
If the Church were not true, our enemies would be bored rather than threatened, and acquiescent rather than anxious. Hell is moved only when things move heavenward.
God’s grace will cover us like a cloak-enough to provide for survival but too thin to keep out all the cold.
The harrowing of the soul can be like the harrowing of the soil; to increase the yield, things are turned upside down.
Why is it that for many persons changing others is so exciting and so relevant, while changing oneself is so boring and irrelevant?
The acceptance of the reality that we are in the Lord's loving hands is only a recognition that we have never really been anywhere else.
Every dimension of the gospel is relevant to one or more of our social and political problems of our time.
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
Satan delights to have us put ourselves down. Self-contempt is of Satan. There is no such thing in heaven.
Those few members who desert the cause are abandoning an oasis to search for water in the desert.
How can we truly understand who we are unless we know who we were and what we have the power to become?
We can't dwell upon another's ingratitude without using up our time and talents unprofitably.
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.
Our God does not indulge us, but He is merciful toward our weaknesses as He strives to tutor us.
The authority of example and considerations of character, unlike pudding, are not whipped up in an instant.
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."
At the center of our agency is our freedom to form a healthy attitude toward whatever circumstances we are placed in!
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.
We can be walking witnesses and standing sermons to which objective onlookers can say a quiet amen.