Neal A. Maxwell Quotes

So much depends, therefore, upon our maintaining gospel perspective in the midst of ordinariness, the pressures of temptation, tribulation, deprivation, and the cares of the world.

It's service, not status, that counts.

Even the good can become careless without the Lord's being there to chasten.

True discipleship is for volunteers only. Only volunteers will trust the Guide sufficiently to follow Him in the dangerous ascent which only He can lead.

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

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.

Education brightens a darkened world.

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.

The flame of family can warm us and at the same time be a perpetual pilot light to rekindle us.

Selfishness is much more than an ordinary problem because it activates all the cardinal sins! It is the detonator in the breaking of the Ten Commandments.

Regarding trials, including of our faith and patience, there are no exemptions-only variations.

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."

There will be many fine and wonderful men and women of all races and creeds-and of no religious creeds at all-who will lead decent and useful lives.

We are in bondage to that which overcomes us. See also 2 Peter 2:19.

Ultimate hope constitutes the anchor of the soul.

Unproductive worry - like Parkinson's proverbial law - tends to expand to fill the time available.

I know sanctification comes not with any particular calling, but with genuine acts of service, often for which there is no specific calling.

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!

Just as meekness is in all our virtues, so is pride in all our sins. -Oct 1986

God does not begin by asking our ability, only our availability, and if we prove our dependability, He will increase our capability.